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SUMMARY: A cattle rancher by trade, Sen.-elect Deb Fischer, R-Neb., will be sworn into Congress after an election campaign which surprised many within her own party. Judy Woodruff talks to Fischer about how her experience as a state senator has prepared her for the U.S. Senate, the need to address spending and gun control.
JUDY WOODRUFF (Newshour): ..... we continue our conversations with newly elected members of the Senate.
So far, we have talked with Arizona Republican Jeff Flake, Democrats Heidi Heitkamp from North Dakota and Virginia's Tim Kaine, and independent Angus King of Maine.
Deb Fischer will be one of just a handful of cattle ranchers in Congress when she is sworn in tomorrow. The 61-year-old Republican was a state senator from sparsely populated northern Nebraska.
She won her party nomination in a surprise victory over other, better known candidates last summer. In November, she defeated former Democratic Senator Bob Kerrey by a wide margin, and she replaces retiring Democrat Ben Nelson.
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