Republicans return to Washington to sift through wreckage of midterms rout

With weeks left on the congressional calendar, House and Senate representatives have a host of issues they still need to tackle

On their first day back in the Capitol after comprehensive defeats in last week's midterm elections, Republicans were divided into two camps: those who saw the catastrophe coming, and those who did not.

I told you exactly what was going to happen. Over and over and over, I told you," said West Virginia senator Jim Justice. I said really and truly, if you weren't concerned and you were a Republican, you were living in a cave. That was my exact words."