Politico: Dingell pushes to keep chairmanship

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While John Dingell’s campaign to keep the chairmanship of the Energy and Commerce Committee has kicked into high gear, his challenger, Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), has operated largely out of the public eye.

Dingell has 50 years in the House and is the ultimate Old Bull, yet he launched a very public campaign to give the appearance that he has the chairmanship of the powerful committee locked up.

Dingell’s whip team held a conference call this afternoon to tell reporters that if there is a vote next week on the chairmanship, Dingell “will prevail by a comfortable margin,” in the words of Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Pa.).

Waxman has not announced a whip team, has said little publicly about his bid and is working behind the scenes to build a coalition. Waxman spokeswoman Karen Lightfoot would say only, “Congressman Waxman is running to win and expects to win.”

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