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Specialization seasoned with seniority is the surest recipe for a meaningful legislative career in the House, which is more than big enough to swallow all the dilettantes and short-timers without a trace. It’s finding a substantive niche, then fitting in over the long haul, that proves perennially frustrating for many members. 

But the goal of becoming a successful and substantive lawmaker just got a whole lot easier for a score of them.

Ten from each party, only one of them a freshman and only two who were initially elected before this decade, have been newly assigned to the committees that stand head and shoulders above the rest because of the breadth of their jurisdiction.

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