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WAXMAN UNSEATS DINGELL AS ENERGY CHAIR
The Page by Mark Halperin — ... Dems vote 137-122 by secret ballot for the California representative to replace veteran Dingell as House Energy and Commerce Chairman. Vote ratifies an earlier decision by the Steering and Policy Committee.       ...

Waxman dethrones Dingell as chairman
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... Dingell has chaired since 1981 with an eye toward protecting the domestic auto industry in his native Michigan. The Energy and Commerce Committee has principal jurisdiction over many of President-elect Barack Obama's top legislative priorities, including energy, the environment and health care. The vote Thursday allows Waxman to unseat the dean of the House just three short months before he was set to become the longest-serving chairman in the history of the institution. Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1108/15822.html The liberal environmental wing of the ...

Democrats Pick Waxman Over Dingell
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) "officially dethroned longtime Energy and Commerce Chairman John Dingell (D-MI), upending a seniority system that has governed Democratic politics in the House for decades," Politico reports. ...

11/20: How Are Obama's Cabinet Picks Playing?
Blogometer — ... 's Todd Beeton is sad that Napolitano probably won't be challenging AZ Sen. John McCain in 2010: "Happy birthday, John McCain, two years early. You dodged a bullet." Meanwhile, conservative bloggers are criticizing Napolitano: HOUSE ENERGY & COMMERCE COMMITTEE: The Netroots Root For Waxman Before House Dems voted this morning to replace Energy & Commerce Committee Chair John Dingell with Rep. Henry Waxman , liberal bloggers were rooting hard for Waxman, whom they thought would be more likely to pursue aggressive climate change policies: PARKER: Kathleen Burns More ...

Waxman takes Chairmanship
The Latest on Air America — ... protecting the domestic auto industry in his native Michigan. The Energy and Commerce Committee has principal jurisdiction over many of President-elect Barack Obama's top legislative priorities, including energy, the environment and health care. "Seniority is important, but it should not be a grant of property rights to be chairman for three decades or more,” Waxman said after emerging from the caucus meeting. Read the rest of the story here.

Change You Can Believe In
Newshoggers.com — ... By Ron Beasley The auto industry is in trouble in part because it has spent millions of dollars trying to block the very innovation that would have made them commpetitive.  They were enabled by longtime Energy and Commerce Chairman, Democrat John Dingell.  Waxman dethrones Dingell as chairman California Rep. Henry A. Waxman on Thursday officially dethroned longtime Energy and Commerce Chairman John Dingell, upending a seniority system that has governed Democratic politics in the House for decades.  In a secret ...

Waxman's in, Dingell's out
Crooks and Liars — It's official: California Rep. Henry A. Waxman on Thursday officially dethroned longtime Energy and Commerce Chairman John Dingell, upending a seniority system that has governed Democratic politics in the House for decades. In a secret ballot vote in the Cannon Caucus Room, House Democrats ratified an earlier decision by the Steering and Policy Committee to replace the 82-year-old Dingell with his 69-year-old rival. The vote was 137-122 in favor of Waxman. The ascension of Waxman, a wily environmentalist, recasts a committee that Dingell has ...

No More Mister Nice Blog — DOES THIS TAKE SOME OF THE STING OUT OF THE LIEBERMAN VOTE? I'd say yes: California Rep. Henry A. Waxman on Thursday officially dethroned longtime Energy and Commerce Chairman John Dingell.... In a secret ballot vote in the Cannon Caucus Room, House Democrats ratified an earlier decision by the Steering and Policy Committee to replace the 82-year-old Dingell with his 69-year-old rival. The vote was 137-122 in favor of Waxman. The ascension of Waxman, a wily environmentalist, recasts a committee that Dingell has chaired since 1981 with an ...

Lib Global Warming Alarmist Takes Chair of House Energy & Commerce Committee
Gateway Pundit — ... argument we made was that we needed a change for the committee to have the leadership that will work with this administration and members in both the House and the Senate in order to get important issues passed in health care, environmental protection, in energy policy," Waxman said after the vote. Say good-bye to new oil and nuclear energy development. This ought to make America's enemies happy. Of course... Today's vote was by secret ballot-- something that liberals plan on taking away ...

Another Example of Hypocritical Politics on Secret Ballots
Stop The ACLU — ... As the Democratic caucus angles to pass the badly named Employee Free Choice Act, a law that will actually take away the choice of a secret ballot for millions of America’s workers, we get one more example of how Democrats in Congress allocate things for themselves that they refuse to allow others to enjoy. In the nasty infighting between Henry Waxman (D., Calif.) and John Dingell (D., Mich.) over the chairmanship of the Energy and Commerce committee in the House of Representatives, a secret ballot was held of the members of the House after which, Waxman came out the victor. ...

VA-Gov: Proxy Battle in Fairfax County
Swing State Project — ... , who of course just entered the U.S. House of Representatives. Connolly has started asserting himself early as a member of Congress, whipping freshmen to support Henry Waxman's ouster of John Dingell as chair of the Energy & Commerce committee, so this race probably means a good deal to him as well. ...

CPSIA: getting Washington’s attention
Overlawyered — ... as based on misinformed or uninformed rumor). Of course, there is famously no love lost between Dingell and Waxman, who ousted him as Commerce chair. But Dingell’s stand could give cover for other Democrats to join in heeding the public outcry as legitimate. That letter in turn has prompted many CPSIA critics to write Dingell letters in hopes of arming him with more facts and arguments on the law’s ill effects: see in particular ...