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Senate Breakfast Club wields gavel power in new GOP majority

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Nearly every member of the Breakfast Club , an informal band of fiscal hawks, was doled out a chairmanship at the start of the new Congress , marking a dramatic rise to power for five men who spent years needling Senate leadership.

The chairmanships afford each senator the power to set the agenda, decide what bills get brought before the committee and which hearings are scheduled.

The rise of the breakfast club means priorities that have previously been marginalized are given serious investigative focus.

The elevation of rabble-rousers to influential committee posts is part of a larger shift in Senate power after Mitch McConnell stepped down as GOP leader in January .

Sen. John Thune promised regular order and more member input to win last November ’s leadership elections.

The unity of Senate Republicans will be tested in the coming months as leadership navigates deadlines over government funding and the debt ceiling.

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