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House GOP boasts diversity and new conservatives

FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2014 file photo Rep.-elect Mia Love, R-Utah, celebrates after winning the race for Utah's 4th Congressional District during a GOP election night watch party in Salt Lake City. Meet the new House Republicans. There’s Mia Love from Utah, the first black Republican woman to serve in the House. Elise Stefanik of upstate New York, at 30 the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2014 file photo Rep.-elect Mia Love, R-Utah, celebrates after winning the race for Utah's 4th Congressional District during a GOP election night watch party in Salt Lake City. Meet the new House Republicans. There’s Mia Love from Utah, the first black Republican woman to serve in the House. Elise Stefanik of upstate New York, at 30 the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

WASHINGTON (AP) – Meet the new House Republicans.

There’s Mia Love from Utah, the first black Republican woman to serve in the House.

Thirty-year-old Elise Stefanik of upstate New York is the youngest woman ever elected to Congress.

Carlos Curbelo is the son of Cuban exiles in Florida.

But Republicans also are welcoming some strongly conservative members, in some cases replacing more moderate GOP lawmakers who retired.