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SNL mocked her as a 'scary mom.' In the Senate, Katie Britt is an emerging dealmaker
Senator Britt, once seen as a partisan, now brokers bipartisan homeland security funding amid a government shutdown lasting over 10 days, reflecting growing cross-party trust.
Stay up to date with our Politics newsletter, sent weekly.Two years ago, Republican Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama accepted what is often called the worst assignment in politics — rebutting the president's State of the Union address.The televised response, broadcast live from Britt's tidy kitchen in Montgomery, was the Alabama freshman's introduction to a national audience, and what many viewers saw was an over-the-top firebrand, parodied as a "sca…