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...When Waxman decided to make a bid for Dingell's chairmanship, his supporters argued that Dingell would be an obstacle to Obama's efforts to wean Detroit - and the country - off its dependence on oil. Dingell's supporters, who included a number of other committee chairmen, expressed 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...
...majorities either party has had since the early 1990s. This would obviously limit the options of a Republican President McCain. But Congress would be a complicating factor in the life of President Obama too. After all, the Constitution envisions a strong Congress, and that's just the way committee chairmen like it. After more than a dozen years of being stymied, first by Newt Gingrich and then by George W. Bush, congressional Democrats are bursting with pent-up ambitions and long-deferred dreams. Some are epic undertakings that would affect every American for decades - like the proposal to impose...
That said, Obama may have less to fear from congressional leaders pushing rival agendas than did his bedeviled predecessors Carter and Clinton. Those earlier Democrats faced Congresses dominated by complacent chairmen who had never known a gop majority. Today's Democratic leaders know what it's like to lose the perks - and opportunities - of power. Having reoccupied the plush offices of the Capitol, they might appreciate the idea that being in the same party sometimes means staying on the same page. Then there is the question of taxes. Obama has made overhauling the tax code a centerpiece of his campaign...
...issue to shut down whoever disagrees with him," says Haney. Specifically, the McCain camp recruited former Arizona governor J. Fife Symington III to run for Haney's party position the next year. Haney was incredulous. "They recruited a former governor?" he says. "To run as one of 30 chairmen in the state? The risk he took just brings into question his level-headedness, I guess...
...Steelworkers and Unite will remain largely autonomous, national entities, but they'll be guided by an Anglo-American umbrella leadership that will coordinate common policy. Gerard and Unite General Secretary Derek Simpson will likely serve as co-chairmen...