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

Alaska senator Lisa Murkowski speaks during the 2013 Team USA Congressional Reception. (Mitchell Layton/Getty Images for BP)
Alaska senator Lisa Murkowski speaks during the 2013 Team USA Congressional Reception. (Mitchell Layton/Getty Images for BP)
Alaska senator Lisa Murkowski speaks during the 2013 Team USA Congressional Reception. (Mitchell Layton/Getty Images for BP)
Mitchell Layton/Getty Images

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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