Politics
What does it mean that Waxman defeated Dingell to become the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee?
Representative Henry Waxman was able to wrest the chairmanship of the House Energy and Commerce Committee from Rep. John Dingell. Read more...
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Support for environmental legislation
The defeat of Dingell is a major victory for environmentalists, removing a key obstacle to real energy reform just as a Democrat with climate change high on his agenda takes the Presidency...Now his victory stands as a harbinger of just how much change is coming Read the Article
Quoted by johncapello on Nov. 20th, 2008
This is a very encouraging development. The Energy and Commerce Committee will be at the heart of the policy making on global warming, environmental, and energy policy, and Waxman will take a far more progressive and ambitious approach than Dingell would have. Read the Article
Quoted by johncapello on Nov. 20th, 2008
Waxman is an advocate of much stricter regulation to curb global warming than Dingell, who as chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committe had compiled a long record of defending the auto industry against emissions rules that automakers consider too strict. Read the Article
Quoted by johncapello on Nov. 20th, 2008
[Waxman's] own cap-and-trade bill is certainly ambitious, with far stricter targets than the Lieberman-Warner bill debated in the Senate...and he's even called for moratorium on new coal-fired plants that can't sequester their emissions. On environmental issues...this is a massive policy shift Read the Article
Quoted by johncapello on Nov. 20th, 2008
Obama has strong support for his agenda
Barack Obama...appointed as the top White House liason to Congress one Philip Schiliro, who has spent many of his past 25 years on the Hill working for (you guessed it) Waxman...it's another sign that Obama is extremely well positioned to make big things happen rather quickly once he takes power Read the Article
Quoted by johncapello on Nov. 20th, 2008
It's a repudiation of the Blue Dogs
This is a huge defeat for the Blue Dogs, who were hoping to use Dingell as a roadblock to keep any meaningful change from happening with regard to...telecommunications and health care, energy and environmental protection, interstate commerce and consumer protection Read the Article
Quoted by johncapello on Nov. 20th, 2008
General Comments
Henry Waxman is one of the most lovably peculiar-looking members of the House and seems like he can be an absolutely ruthless bastard in the name of Justice, so huzzah. Read the Article
Quoted by johncapello on Nov. 20th, 2008
