wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 1/8/2009
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Jurisdiction over energy and environmental issues — including global warming legislation — in a key House committee will be moving from two Democrats sympathetic to industrial polluters to a progressive environmentalist. According to the Boston Globe, Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA) will ...
gristmill.grist.org - 1/8/2009
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gristmill.grist.org —
As Kate reported earlier today , new House
Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) is
reorganizing the committee, unifying oversight of climate, energy, air quality, and water issues under a single subcommittee: the Energy and ...
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Markey to take chairmanship of new Energy and ...
marcambinder.theatlantic.com - 1/8/2009
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marcambinder.theatlantic.com —
For his swan song as chairman of the
House's government oversight committee, Henry Waxman picked a very
touchy topic: steroid use by professional wrestlers. Waxman's findings , released on January 2 and based on documents he gathered from the World ...
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Is Wrestling The New Baseball?
boston.com - 1/8/2009
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boston.com —
WASHINGTON - Representative Edward Markey today will be
awarded a key energy and environment leadership post in
the House, a move that will make the Malden Democrat one of the most powerful players on Capitol Hill on an issue central to ...
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Markey to lead powerful energy subcommittee
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Quiet Revolution on House Energy and Commerce
Matthew Yglesias —
... The last election itself was an important shake-up of the power structure in Washington. But another important development has been the way in which the new, more leftward tilt of the House, is leading to restructuring of the House of Representatives leadership hierarchy. The core leadership team around Nancy Pelosi (herself the most powerful DFH in the land) is more progressive and as Brad Johnson explains the Waxman-Dingell switcheroo on the powerful Energy & Commerce committee is being followed-up with more change: ...
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Waxman, Markey Announce Breakthrough on Climate Change Bill
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Waxman wins.
dailykos.com 11/20/2008 — Roll Call (subscription) reports that Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) will be taking over the gavel of the House Energy & Commerce Committee from longtime Chairman John Dingell (D-MI), after a vote of 137-122 in the full House Democratic Caucus. ...
Steering Committee Goes for Waxman, 25-22
openleft.com 11/19/2008 — This strikes me as very good news.
By a three-vote margin, the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee today recommended that Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Henry Waxman be given the chairmanship of the Energy and Commerce ...
Hullabaloo
digbysblog.blogspot.com 11/19/2008 — Tuesday, November 18, 2008 Backing Waxman by digby Matt Stoller wrote a piece yesterday about the fight over the Energy and Commerce Committee chairmanship between John Dingell and Henry Waxman and he points out that the outcome of this is probably ...
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newsbusters.org 2/19/2009 — If Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) is not trying to investigate conservatives, he is trying to squelch their voices. Waxman has jumped into the so-called Fairness Doctrine discussion as of late. Waxman, however, has added another dimension to the issue ...
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prospect.org 11/18/2008 — WAXMAN VERSUS DINGELL. I haven't given this the attention it deserves, but Henry Waxman's decision to challenge John Dingell for chairman of the Energy and Commerce committee is a HUGE deal. Energy and Commerce is, along with Ways and Means, the key ...
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thehill.com 11/21/2008 — Rep. Henry Waxman’s successful coup against Energy and Commerce Chairman John Dingell on Thursday leaves the storied former chairman with a ceremonial role and steers the Democratic agenda sharply left. The 137-122 vote to hand Waxman (Calif.) the ...
Waxman wrestles gavel from Dingell
thehill.com 11/20/2008 — Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) will become the next chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee after House Democrats voted to replace current Chairman John Dingell (D-Mich.). Waxman won 137-122 in the secret ballot vote. The dramatic ...
Sources: Voinovich to retire from Senate —
CNN Political Ticker 1/12/2009
Sources say Sen. George Voinovich, a Republican from Ohio, will retire from the Senate.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sources close to Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio, tell CNN he will announce Monday he is retiring from the Senate.
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