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...said Thursday he didn't know his boss's political registration.) Still, antiwar activists are growing concerned at the prospect of an increasingly hawkish Obama Cabinet featuring Gates as Defense chief and Senator Hillary Clinton (who supported invading Iraq) as Secretary of State. But Gates has won praise on Capitol Hill for arguing that U.S. foreign policy is too militarized and for firing senior officers and officials he deemed to have failed the nation's wounded vets and to have been derelict in ensuring the security of America's nuclear weapons. (See the Top 10 Secret Service code names...
...United Auto Workers head Ron Gettelfinger - who also appeared on Capitol Hill on Wednesday but has so far escaped much of Congress's wrath despite his union's crippling labor deals - used a press conference on Thursday to bash what he said was the hypocrisy of certain Detroit opponents in Congress. Many of the same Senators and Representatives who vehemently object to giving any aid to carmakers, he claimed, come from states that have shelled out big bucks as incentive to lure foreign automakers to set up plants. "It just seems odd to us that we can offer incentives...
Nowhere but on Capitol Hill could a 69-year-old politician serving his 17th term be considered a Young Turk. But in challenging and unseating a committee chairman known as "the Truck," California Congressman Henry Waxman has succeeded in the kind of power sortie that happens only once every few decades in Congress - and put himself in a position where he will help determine the fate of much of Barack Obama's domestic agenda...
...chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and give the post to Waxman. Few jobs in Congress are as powerful; the committee has one of the largest swaths of jurisdiction, encompassing energy, health-care and environmental issues. Waxman's elevation upends one of the most revered principles on Capitol Hill: the seniority system. "It's just been buried," says Representative Charlie Rangel of New York, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. (See 10 Questions with Henry Waxman...
...concern that Waxman would not be sensitive enough to the need to protect jobs as the country goes through that transition. Dingell's ouster also comes as the big automakers are foundering in their bid for a $25 billion bailout, another measure of the industry's declining power on Capitol Hill...