AP: Pelosi May Create Global Warming Panel

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Pelosi May Create Global Warming Panel

By JOHN HEILPRIN
The Associated Press
Wednesday, January 17, 2007; 5:16 PM

WASHINGTON -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, intent on putting global warming
atop the Democratic agenda, is shaking up traditional committee fiefdoms
dominated by some of Congress' oldest and most powerful members.

She's moving to create a special committee to recommend legislation for cutting
greenhouse gases, most likely to be chaired by Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass.,
a Democratic leadership aide said Wednesday.

Markey has advocated raising mileage standards for cars, trucks and SUVs and
is one of the House's biggest critics of oil companies and U.S. automakers,

Pelosi has discussed the proposal with at least two Democratic committee chairmen:
fellow Californian Henry Waxman of Oversight and Government Reform, and West
Virginia Rep. Nick Rahall, who heads the Natural Resources panel. Pelosi intends
to announce the move this week, said the leadership aide, who spoke on condition
of anonymity because not all of the details have been worked out.

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