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Henry Waxman, John Dingell Face Off for House Chair
Politics Daily —
Filed under: House, Breaking News, Environment, EnergyIn what American Prospect blogger Ezra Klein calls "an early test of how serious the House Democratic Caucus is about global warming legislation" two powerful Democratic U.S. Representatives are squaring off over a key House committee chairmanship. California's Henry Waxman will try to oust Michigan's John Dingell from his chairmanship of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The committee is the most powerful in the House and it will be the focal point of important new health care and energy legislation. The issue here is Dingell's unwillingness to allow legislation ...
MIDDAY ROUNDUP
News —
MIDDAY ROUNDUP The impending fight in the House over control of a key committee chairmanship draws input from liberal bloggers today, while calls for the Republican Party to exorcise itself of the religious right is debated on the left and the right. Tomorrow’s showdown between Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and John Dingell (D-Mich.) for control of the House Energy and Commerce Committee is the first real test of the new Democratic majority, MyDD’s Jerome Armstrong writes, backing Waxman to assist climate change legislation. Waxman’s play is incredibly aggressive, but even if he does not win control of the committee, he may force Dingell to commit to global warming legislation, ...
Steering Committee Goes for Waxman, 25-22
Open Left - Front Page —
... baron committee chairs are going for Dingell, this adds a lot of firepower to Waxman's case. Dingell is a vindictive guy, so his case rests on the notion that if you don't vote for him you're going to have problems with the person who will naturally be the Chair of Energy and Commerce. Cracking the image of inevitability is key to letting members know it's safe to go against Dingell.
The Lieberman fight was discouraging but quite expected. I'm with Jerome, Ezra, Digby on this one, it's a significant marker in how progressive Congress will be. ...
Daschle’s Views On Health Reform: ‘Incremental Change In Our System Is No Longer A Viable Option’
Wonk Room —
... Ezra Klein points out, “you don’t tap the former Senate Majority Leader to run your health care bureaucracy. That’s not his skill set. You tap him to get your health care plan through Congress.” Earlier this year, during an address at the Families USA Action Conference, Daschle concurred with ...
Daschle’s Views On Health Reform: ‘Incremental Change In Our System Is No Longer A Viable Option’
Think Progress —
... Ezra Klein points out, “you don’t tap the former Senate Majority Leader to run your health care bureaucracy. That’s not his skill set. You tap him to get your health care plan through Congress.” Earlier this year, during an address at the Families USA Action Conference, Daschle concurred with ...
Daschle to HHS
Overlawyered —
Sorry, docs: former South Dakota Senator Tom Daschle, reported as Obama’s HHS pick and indeed a “health czar” charged with pushing comprehensive health care reform through Congress, was known as a particularly close ally of the trial lawyers as Majority Leader, and drew on them as his most important donors in his final (2004) race. In 2004 he won an award from the New York Trial Lawyers Association for his work in blocking liability reform at the national level. (CNN, Patterico, American Prospect)
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Rival, Retreads and Other Irrelevance
The Moderate Voice —
As he picks Rahm Emanuel, Eric Holder, Tom Daschle and flirts with the former First Lady, there is a predictable chorus of criticism that going back to the Clinton years is not the change Barack Obama promised in his campaign.
Some of that was heard when he chose Joe Biden as his running mate, but Obama’s goal all along was to persuade voters wary of his inexperience that the best of the past would not be swept away in rhetorical enthusiasm for the new.
He is fulfilling that promise and concentrating on the real change from the Bush-Cheney years, bringing competence back to Washington, wherever he finds it–in the over-touted Lincolnesque ...
