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Seems my sources this ayem were incorrect. Politico reports that Henry Waxman has won the Energy Committee gavel, unseating John Dingell from the perch he has held since 1981.
Update:
The vote was 137-122 by secret ballot. Edolphus Towns now succeeds Waxman at the helm of the Oversight Committee. All in all it has been a terrible week for Detroit: their pleas for a bailout fell on deaf (and in some cases hostile) ears and their greatest champion has now lost his soapbox.
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
More than five months from Election Day, the back-and-forth about Mitt Romney’s record at Bain already feels played out. Unfortunately, there’s good reason to expect the campaign continues in this vein indefinitely. Neither Barack Obama nor Mitt Romney are terribly interested in dwelling on policy platforms. Romney’s plan to slash spending and keep taxes low on the wealthy isn’t especially popular, at least not at any level of detail beyond a blithe promise to shrink the deficit. Meanwhile, Obama’s signature first-term achievements, like health care, the stimulus and Wall Street reform, are all unpopular or tricky to sell. (The Dodd-Frank bill is the most popular of these, but hyping it means offending wealthy donors.) So what we’re getting instead is a superficial duel about character–and, worse, one that’s based on the largely false premise that the better man can better “manage” the economy back to health.
