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Scott Brown gets Senate nickname

By Janet Hook

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Sen.-elect Scott Brown – the truck-driving, populist, Tea-Party-backed Republican --made his first visit to Capitol Hill since his upset victory in Massachusetts, and he already picked up his first insiders nickname: 41.

That is the number of senators it takes to sustain a filibuster, and that is why Brown during his campaign to become the Senate’s 41st Republican sometimes gave his autograph as ``Scott 41.’’

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Sen. Mitch McConnell, a canny insider’s insider, was delighted: ``This is a man who understands how the Senate operates. So henceforth, I will always think of him as 41.’’

-- Janet Hook

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Janet Hook covered national politics for the Los Angeles Times until October 2021. She returned to the Washington bureau in 2018 after spending eight years covering politics and Congress for the Wall Street Journal. Her first stint with The Times was in 1995-2010 covering Congress and politics. She was a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics and received the Everett Dirksen Award for reporting on Congress, the Carey McWilliams Award for political reporting and the John S. Knight Fellowship for Professional Journalists. She is a graduate of Harvard University.

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