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House Democratic sources credited Representative John Dingell, the longest serving member in the history of Congress and dean of the Michigan delegation, for bringing Stupak around. Stupak, a Dingell protégé, was in tears when Dingell lost his House Energy and Commerce gavel to Henry Waxman last year - the committee is the only one Stupak has served on since his election to Congress in 1992. Health care reform has been Dingell's top priority during his 54 years in office and, in fact, the House bill was named for him. "Mr. Dingell had a piece of me yesterday...
Lowell has some pretty sweet events. Sophomores get to go on a boat cruise down the Charles with Dorothy and Diana. The House also plays host to speakers organized just for Lowellians. For example, this past week, we had former U.S. Soliciter General Seth P. Waxman '73 and a bank-robber-turned-jail-house-legal-expert in the Junior Common Room fielding questions from students for over an hour...
...Both Waxman and Adams have held leadership positions on the Board of Overseers—Waxman currently chairs the board’s social sciences committee and previously led the committee on institutional policy. Adams is presently vice chair of the committee on schools, the College, and continuing education. Both have also been directors of the Harvard Alumni Association...
...Waxman, who graduated summa cum laude from Havard before attending Yale Law School, is now a partner with the law firm WilmerHale in Washington, D.C., and a faculty member at Georgetown. He has argued more than 50 cases before the Supreme Court, according to an online biography, and was mentioned as a candidate to replace Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter before Sonia M. Sotomayor was appointed...
University President Drew G. Faust praised the dedication Waxman and Adams have shown on the board in a statement...