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The deaths of two House Democrats early in the 119th Congress, combined with the Senate holding out on confirming Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is yielding a temporary increase in the size of Speaker Mike Johnson’s razor-thin majority.