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Sen. Lisa Murkowski celebrated the GOP Senate takeover by waving a chair, yelling "I am the chairmaaaan!"

Senate Republicans were very excited about their takeover of the Senate on Tuesday night. But perhaps no senator was excited as one Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who will now chair the committee on Energy and Natural Resources. NPR captured her reaction:

As you can imagine, her reaction is even better in the audio version. You can hear it around 30 seconds of this NPR story, or you can re-live the event yourself with this short Vox approximation of what happened.

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