Mark Amodei easily won his first full term in the House of Representatives on Tuesday.He overwhelmed underfunded Democrat Sam Koepnick, Independent American Russell Best and Independent candidate Michael Haines, collecting nearly 60 percent of the vote.The Carson City Republican, Amodei, said he is hoping now that the election is done, that both the House and Senate will buckle down to try to solve some of the problems that have been stymied by the deep partisan divide in Congress.The interim between the election and the swearing in of the new Congress, he said, will be a strong indicator of whether that …


