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BYZANTINE D.C.: Orange County’s newest members of...

By Jerry Hicks, Helene Elliott and Gebe Martinez

BYZANTINE D.C.: Orange County’s newest members of Congress--Republicans Edward R. Royce and Jay C. Kim--spent their first day in the nation’s capital Wednesday--with 108 other new House members--in the biennial exercise of freshman orientation. . . . “My first impression is there’s a lot to learn,” says Royce of Anaheim, who served in the state Senate for 10 years. “It’s much more Byzantine than I had expected.”

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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