November 10, 2006
Election Bonus
Another very pleasing to me consequence of the Democrats taking over Congress is the ascendence of old-line long-serving liberals to committee chairmanships: in the House, Reps. Charlie Rangel, Ways and Means; David Obey, Appropriations; Barney Frank, Financial Services; John Dingell, Energy and Commerce; Henry Waxman, Government Reform; John Conyers, Judiciary and Minnesota's Jim Oberstar, (at 65 probably the youngster of the bunch) Transportation and in the Senate, Sens. Pat Leahy, Judiciary; Dan Inouye, Commerce; Ted Kennedy, Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and Chris Dodd, Banking.
It does my heart good just typing in those names.
It does my heart good just typing in those names.
posted @ 5:08 PM
