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In what American Prospect blogger Ezra Klein calls "an early test of how serious the House Democratic Caucus is about global warming legislation" two powerful Democratic U.S. Representatives are squaring off over a key House committee chairmanship. California's Henry Waxman will try to oust Michigan's John Dingell from his chairmanship of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The committee is the most powerful in the House and it will be the focal point of important new health care and energy legislation. The issue here is Dingell's unwillingness to allow legislation that will curb greenhouse gas emissions. Dingell represents Detroit, home of the flagging American auto industry, which has long opposed reforms that would slow global climate change.
The decision between Waxman and Dingell should come Wednesday when the House steering committee votes on the issue. Marc Ambinder of the Atlantic writes, "There's already talk of behind-the-scenes negotiations: maybe Dingell will stay put for another year and then step down. Waxman, and many Democratic colleagues, won't have that."
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jjmthomas
1:31AM Nov 19th 2008
YAWN
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purplehayes
2:22AM Nov 19th 2008
Wasman gets my vote. From what I've seen of him on television he appears to be a man who has the guts to stand up to intrenched intrests and look out for the interests of the working man.
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(0) nick
9:42AM Nov 19th 2008
wAXMAN IS A CARPET BEGGER JEW. THIS IS THE CLASS A WEASEL OF THE HOUSE. JAY ALLBRITTON BEING THE WATER BOY FOR REP PELOSI AND obama REALLY SHOWS HIS BIAS.
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(0) Debra S.
10:51AM Nov 19th 2008
Dingell needs to step aside, and make way for policies and legislation that supports our future, rather than supporting and protecting dinosaur industries. These dinosaur industries have suppressed innovation and development in this country, and now we are paying the cost.
Rather than a bailout, perhaps let the market take its course, and use the money that otherwise would have been spent in a bailout to re-train and educate auto industry and related workers.
Rather than a bailout, perhaps let the market take its course, and use the money that otherwise would have been spent in a bailout to re-train and educate auto industry and related workers.
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(0) Voice of Reason
1:45PM Nov 19th 2008
will We not build anything here in America anymore?
outsourcing more jobs?
we'll just buy tanks & cars from Asheville, Japan ...great bed & breakfast...far down south though
where do you draw the line?
i say draw it at keeping the ability to manufacture in this nation...
without it we have no ability to do the R&D to build NEW products to export abroad and right our ship...We need to develop NEW products in this country to grow our way out of trouble…if they go down…We can’t get there from here using the wrongheaded Rightwing map
the very losers that are pushing the bankruptcy meme are the very ones that lost this last election because they do not care about public opinion...
public opinion is on the side of saving the big 3 with serious strings attached to the taxpayer coin
voters/taxpayers/listeners/viewers/readers are one in the same
i say tell them plain and simple...
do it Our way for Our coin or go ask Big Oil for the money...since that is the rear they kiss
the pro-bankruptcy folks just lost bad ignoring the voter opinion and now asking you to ignore consumer opinion....
Democrats...don't get on the wrong side...the People have given their trust…don’t waste it…
the GOP has knack for picking the wrong side...don't follow them
Bush Admin...stuck on stupid...they lost and still don't get it...
he is still costing you guys on the right...and Hoover will for years to come...
you guys are done
http://www.880therevolution.com/cc-common/ondemand/player.html?world=st
outsourcing more jobs?
we'll just buy tanks & cars from Asheville, Japan ...great bed & breakfast...far down south though
where do you draw the line?
i say draw it at keeping the ability to manufacture in this nation...
without it we have no ability to do the R&D to build NEW products to export abroad and right our ship...We need to develop NEW products in this country to grow our way out of trouble…if they go down…We can’t get there from here using the wrongheaded Rightwing map
the very losers that are pushing the bankruptcy meme are the very ones that lost this last election because they do not care about public opinion...
public opinion is on the side of saving the big 3 with serious strings attached to the taxpayer coin
voters/taxpayers/listeners/viewers/readers are one in the same
i say tell them plain and simple...
do it Our way for Our coin or go ask Big Oil for the money...since that is the rear they kiss
the pro-bankruptcy folks just lost bad ignoring the voter opinion and now asking you to ignore consumer opinion....
Democrats...don't get on the wrong side...the People have given their trust…don’t waste it…
the GOP has knack for picking the wrong side...don't follow them
Bush Admin...stuck on stupid...they lost and still don't get it...
he is still costing you guys on the right...and Hoover will for years to come...
you guys are done
http://www.880therevolution.com/cc-common/ondemand/player.html?world=st
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(0) Pat Lukes
9:37AM Nov 20th 2008
Henry Waxman is wonderful. He's a 'get things done' kind of guy. He's very hands on and would make a great team leader. Go get 'em Henry.
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(0) KC
7:28PM Nov 20th 2008
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