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Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., left, and Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, attend a meeting with President Joe Biden and other members of Congress to discuss his jobs plan in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Monday, April 19, 2021.
Andrew Harnik, Associated Press
Sitting around dinner at Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s house last fall, four Democratic and four Republican senators, including Sen. Mitt Romney, cobbled together a less costly compromise to the $1.6 trillion coronavirus relief package House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was proposing.
That successful effort led to other senators mostly centrists but ranging from the most conservative to the most liberal joining the group, evenly split between Republicans and Democrats, that some now call the G-20, though Romney, R-Utah, calls that moniker “delusions of grandeur.”
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