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Before winning the Senate, Webb spent nearly two decades as an author and filmmaker, penning eight books, including six Vietnam-based novels, and won an Emmy for his 1983 coverage of U.S. Marines in Beirut. But he likes to remind reporters that he is not new to Washington, that he is a returning veteran of its polity wars and has worked with many of its players before.

“I’m really proud of my relationship with John Warner,” he said, referring to the senior senator from Virginia who last year campaigned hard for his defeat. “I worked on his staff in my last year in the Marine Corps when he was Secretary of the Navy and I’ve known him for 36 years. From day one in the Senate, we started to work together.”

This month, for instance, Wafner and Webb collaborated on the selection of new Federal judges. “We have worked out a methodology so that both of us are sitting down in the same room doing the selection pro

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