With the GOP formally taking control of Congress today following victories in November’s midterm elections, House and Senate Republicans are in a strong position to push their legislative agenda. Here’s a look at their top priorities:

Decreasing government’s role in what is left of education

Overturning landmark compromises, concessions, and accommodations of Obama legacy

Following through with their unique interpretation of improving women’s health care

Spurring job growth by creating thousands of new jobs investigating Benghazi

Putting an end to old era of congressional gridlock, dysfunction, and wastefulness; beginning new era of congressional paralysis, failure, and squandering

Getting all objectionable comments out of party members’ systems right now so as not to be remembered by 2016

Pretty much just picking up right where they left off last term

Trying to identify some kind of tangible Democratic achievement on gun control to undo

Aiming high for a steady congressional approval rating of 16 percent

After all political goals achieved, governing