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House speaker, Kirk Cox, R-Colonial Heights, presides over the House session at the Capitol. The House completed it’s business for crossover. (Credit: AP Photo / Steve Helber)

Heading into this year’s General Assembly Republicans had been battered at the polls. They were clinging to a single-vote majority that they won by by the luck of the draw. Now, one month in, Republican Speaker of the House Kirk Cox is upbeat. Mallory Noe-Payne reports.