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Colorado Senate Republicans, who now have an 18-17 majority, celebrated during caucus leadership elections by donning No. 18 Peyton Manning jerseys. Democrats have been in power since 2005 but will be in the minority next year. (Senate GOP)

Colorado Senate Republicans, who will be in charge for the next two years, have announced their committee chairs and members for the next two years.

The biggest surprise for Democrats might be the Senate Education Committee, where some of the chambers most conservative Republicans are assigned. In other words, this is not a teachers union friendly crowd.

Sen. Owen Hill

Democratic Sen. Andy Kerr of Lakewood, the current education chair, said he looks forward to working with the new education chair, Republican Owen Hill of Colorado Springs.

Ive served with Hill on two different committees and found his intelligence and humor to be uplifting, Kerr said. Although we dont agree on every issue we certainly enjoy working together.

Likewise, Hill said.

Andy and I talk and text regularly, Hill said. There are very few people in politics I enjoy working with more than Andy Kerr.

Republicans, who have been in the minority since 2005, will have an 18-17 majority next year and will be led by Senate President Bill Cadman of Colorado Springs.

The Senate Republicans have a dedicated and talented team committed to ensuring a fair and open process for all committee hearings, said Senate Majority Leader Mark Scheffel, R-Parker. We look forward to working with our Democratic colleagues to build a better Colorado in the upcoming legislative session.

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Children from 21 countries wear Halloween costumes as they recite the Pledge of Allegiance after becoming American citizens during a naturaliSation ceremony in Baltimore, Maryland on October 31st. Photograph: Mark Wilson/Getty Images

Republicans are preparing a response to Barack Obamas plans to change the immigration system. The aim to block the presidents go-solo actions, which are expected to help up to five million illegal immigrants, but not alienate a public fed up with dysfunctional national politics with too extreme a reaction.

Hurt by last years government shutdown over their opposition to Mr Obamas signature healthcare law, the party is weighing how to counter his expected executive actions that would bypass Republican opposition in the House of Representatives and their refusal to take up a cross-party Senate immigration bill.

Mr Obama has long threatened to fix a broken immigration system on his own terms if House speaker John Boehner and his fellow Republicans in Congress fail to draft their own legislation.

Mr Boehner has refused to take up a bill on immigration, a lightning rod issue in the stormy partisanship of Washington politics, and has warned the president that executive action would poison the well.

He will make a televised address at 8pm tonight on his plans, he said, laying out the things that I can do with my lawful authority as president to make the system work better.

Mr Obama plans to make a speech at Del Sol High School in Las Vegas tomorrow to rally support for his initiative. The location points to the significance of the announcement the president gave a major speech on immigration at the school in January 2013, a week after his second inauguration.

Nevada is also the home state of Democratic Senate leader Harry Reid, who will make way for Republican Mitch McConnell as the next Senate majority leader after the GOP won back the chamber in this months midterm elections.

As many as five million people are reportedly expected to benefit from the move, out of the estimated 11.4 million illegal immigrants in the US.

The executive actions represent an expansion of the 2012 measure introduced by Mr Obama to allow children who were brought to the US illegally as children, known as Dreamers, to remain in the country.

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