Washington • Sen.-elect Mitt Romney joined his fellow incoming senators at the Capitol on Tuesday, starting his transition into office beginning with his assignment of temporary working space tucked into the basement.
Romney, a Utah Republican who will succeed Sen. Orrin Hatch come January, visited Washington for the first time since the election and found a nameplate emblazoned with “Senator-elect Mitt Romney” below the seat of the state of Utah. He’ll work from this space until offices are doled out to the new Senate class.
“This is an orientation day and I’m getting orientated,” Romney told MSNBC during a brief hallway interview, noting that he’d met with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell but brushing aside a question about whether acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker should recuse himself from supervising the special counsel’s Russia investigation because of his previous comments about the probe.