Today in The Nation: Waxman's Big Win: "John Nichols Rep. Henry Waxman has won leadership of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, a sign that Obama and Pelosi will be setting the agenda in Washington. In a showdown of the sort rarely seen in recent decades, the caucus voted Thursday morning to remove the current chair and long-time definitional player on the committee, Michigan Congressman John Dingell. The vote was close – 137 for Waxman, 122 for Dingell – but that does not make it any less significant as an indicator of the direction Congress is likely to take in a period when Democrats will control the executive and legislative branches of a federal government that Waxman thinks should be far more activist in its approach to environmental issues and the regulation of corporations.
(Via The Nation: Top Stories.)
