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Top leaders for both parties in both chambers secured re-election this week with nary a whiff of challenge.

U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was unanimously elected majority leader, meaning that Georgia Senator-elect David Perdue did not follow through on his primary season pledge to vote against McConnell.

To be fair, Perdue had no alternative, and there was never going to be a challenge to the Kentuckian.

In a primary debate, Perdue said “my answer is no” when asked whether he’d vote for McConnell. Perdue met with McConnell after he won the Republican nomination and reportedly promised to be a “team player.” In the general election, Perdue dodged the question of his leadership vote.

On the House side, Speaker John Boehner was re-elected by voice vote, but one of the handful of “no” voices in the crowd belonged to Jody Hice, the Republican from Monroe who just won in Georgia’s 10th Congressional District.

“I was a voice for our district, and Mr. Boehner prevailed,” Hice said. “And we’ll keep standing for conservative values and principles.”

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