Published 11/20/2008
by CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney
at CNN Political Ticker
WASHINGTON (CNN) — California Rep. Henry Waxman won the chairmanship of the House Energy and Commerce Committee Thursday, defeating the longtime chairman, John Dingell of Michigan, in a secret ballot vote of the incoming Democratic caucus.
Waxman — first elected to the House in 1974 — defeated Dingell — first elected in 1955 — by a [...]
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