Rand Paul eyes top spot on Senate health panel as GOP plays committee musical chairs

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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is considering a bid to become the top Republican on the Senate health committee in January, a move that would put the libertarian Kentucky lawmaker next to the upper chamber’s leading socialist.
Paul chairs the Senate’s Homeland Security committee, but he is set to be demoted to ranking member, or the panel’s top Republican, in the next Congress after Democrats seized the majority in the midterm elections.

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