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The race between John Dingell and Henry Waxman for the chairmanship of the House Energy and Commerce Committee was a proxy war between congressional Democrats who want to protect manufacturing jobs from the onslaught of environmental regulations and those who wish to go green without regard to the economic implications.(The Week)(Brief article)

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The race between John Dingell and Henry Waxman for the chairmanship of the House Energy and Commerce Committee was a proxy war between congressional Democrats who want to protect manufacturing jobs from the onslaught of environmental regulations and those who wish to go green without regard to the economic implications. The greens triumphed as California's Waxman, a liberal ally of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, unseated Michigan's Dingell, who has been his party's senior member on the panel for 28 years. Waxman is a dogged investigator driven by ...

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