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Markey to lead powerful energy subcommittee
boston.com - 1/8/2009
Markey to lead powerful energy subcommittee
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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 President-elect Obama's first-term agenda.
gristmill.grist.org - 1/8/2009
Markey to take chairmanship of new Energy and Environment Subcommittee | Gristmill: The ...
— 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 ... (more) Markey to take chairmanship of new Energy and ...

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Markey Takes Key Energy and Environment Position In House
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 1/8/2009
Markey Takes Key Energy and Environment Position In House
— wonkroom.thinkprogress.org — 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 ... (more) Markey Takes Key Energy and Environment Position In House

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David Roberts: Markey takes chairmanship of key energy & environment subcommittee -- House geared for action
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — 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 Environment Subcommittee. The Boston Globe just broke the news that Ed Markey (D-Mass.) will chair the new subcommittee. This is a big deal, even if you don't particularly care about inside Congressional baseball. Right now Markey chairs the ...

Markey to lead powerful energy subcommittee
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... said."In the last Congress, the two people who were in charge of writing global warming legislation in the House of Representatives . . . were big auto and big coal," said Kevin Knobloch, president of the Cambridge-based Union of Concerned Scientists, referring to Dingell's and Boucher's support for their local auto and coal industries. Markey's ascension "is part of an exciting, game-changing leadership in the Congress on climate and energy," Knobloch said.Read more: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2009/01/08/m... / From Climate Progress: ...

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