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 …
The smackdown between two House chairmen for the Energy Committee gavel will be decided today. While Waxman won the first round, Dem sources tell me Dingell always expected to lose the committee vote and is confident he will win a referendum of the full caucus. Not only does he have the endorsement of Barney Frank, which carries a lot of …
An update on my post: John Boehner won reelection as House minority leader with Eric Cantor taking the No. 2 spot and the new chairman of the GOP conference will be Mike Pence. Pete Sessions won the chairmanship of the NRSC NRCC after incumbent Tom Cole withdrew his candidacy.
I sat down with Boehner this afternoon to chat about …
This morning in the Longworth Office Building the House GOP conference is meeting to elect leaders (the Dems met yesterday and – surprise, surprise – picked Pelosi, Hoyer, Clyburn and Larson to replace Rahm). Incumbent Minority Leader John Boehner agreed to debate his sole challenger California’s Dan Lungren, but most observers see …
A story today on why the Dems claimed back their prodigal son.
My story out today on why things aren’t looking so good for the auto bailout (and why that’s a little scary).
Sources say that Senate Dems, who are currently huddling in the Old Senate Chamber, will keep Lieberman in the caucus and allow his to retain the chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (thus giving him subpoena power over the administration — a power he did not exert over 43). Lieberman is …
Commentator sgwhitefla got me thinking in the last post: what happens if Joe Lieberman decides to leave the Senate tomorrow? The caucus is meeting to determine his fate and if he does leave, he would throw the majority of the chamber to the GOP for all of the three days left in the session. It’s an interesting question, so I asked
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Teddy Kennedy made a quiet return to Capitol Hill this morning, coming in to his offices in the Russell Office Building. The lion, who is suffering from a brain tumor, is working on healthcare legislation and is meeting tomorrow with Montana Senator Max Baucus, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee who is holding his first
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Oversight Committee Chairman Henry Waxman has been coveting Energy Committee Chairman John Dingell’s job for, well, decades. But never before has Waxman so directly challenged Dingell – who has sat atop the committee for 28 years – so directly.
It’s hard to believe Waxman would make this bid without the support of Speaker …
Following up on Joe’s post, here’s a story I did for time.com on the choices and pressures Reid and Lieberman are facing. Seems we’ll know something in two weeks’ time.
Apparently, Rahm has accepted the chief-of-staff job, no really this time – at least we think. Robert Gibbs will be Obama’s press secretary. And Fortune.com reports that Larry Summers is in the lead for Treasury Secretary. Tomorrow Obama will meet with his economic advisors and hold his first press conference as president-elect,
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