Word: chairmanships
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...That's why Green Mountain has yet to see profits, although some big?and surprising?names support it. (BP Amoco and Nuon, a Dutch utility, each pumped in $50 million last fall and took over the chairmanship from, odder still, Texas billionaire Sam Wyly, an oil and coal man who is also a longtime friend of President Bush's.) The Golden State could have been a huge market, but on Feb. 1 California stripped consumers of the right to choose their electricity provider, be it green or brown...
...Representatives, where GOP leaders were giving up their committee chairs. The shakeup marks a stark departure from years of tradition - for as long as the modern House has existed, representatives in the controlling party have bided their time, inching up the leadership ladder toward their ultimate reward: A committee chairmanship...
...pretty sight. Democrats and Republicans each had 37 seats, with two held by independents. The Democrats managed to persuade one of the independents to join their ranks, but then Republicans peeled off the other independent, Senator William Mahone of Virginia, by dangling before him the Agriculture Committee chairmanship and the power to pick the Senate's Sergeant at Arms. Republican Vice President Chester A. Arthur cast the tie-breaking vote so the G.O.P. could take over the chamber. But legislative business quickly ground to a halt when angry Democrats refused to show up for any floor votes...
...expect any Senators to change their party stripes for a committee chairmanship from the enemy. Democrats have already quietly sniffed for defectors but have found no prospects. The only opportunity for a tilt in their direction would be if the Senate's two oldest Republicans, who are in poor health--South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, 97, and North Carolina's Jesse Helms, 79--suddenly left and the Democratic Governors of their states picked replacements...
...staff member close to Tauzin says, "Billy thinks it's in the bag." Maybe. The November contest for control of the House is tight, and odds are about even that the chairmanship will fall to neither Tauzin nor Oxley but to that old lion of the Democratic Party John Dingell...