Life after defeat

Politics: Republicans chart their own courses following November losses | Becky Perry

The opening session of the 110th Congress put 22 Republican representatives and six senators ousted in November midterm elections officially out of work.

So what's an unemployed former lawmaker to do?

Some defeated Republicans are headed to academia. Former Sen. Lincoln Chafee will return to Rhode Island to teach at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. The only Senate Republican to vote against the war in Iraq, Chafee will lead an undergraduate study group focused on international relations and avoiding violent international conflict.

Former Sen. Mike DeWine announced two new teaching jobs in his home state of Ohio—one at his alma mater, Miami University, and one at Baptist-affiliated Cedarville University, located a short drive from his family farmhouse.