Mar 5 2009
Power Players: Natural Resources Committee Chair Mines Support from Homestate Industry
Name: Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.V.)Position: At 27, Rahall was the youngest member of the first Congress he served in, landing spots on the Interior and Public Works committees in his first term in 1976. More than 30 years later, he’s the chair of the House Natural Resources Committee (formerly the Interior Committee) and the No. [...]
Jan 28 2009
Power Players: Struggling Financial Firms Are Banking on Dodd
Name: Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.)
Position: Although Dodd is chair of one of the more powerful congressional committees, he probably isn’t the envy of his peers these days with an economic crisis growing larger by the day. Dodd has put in two years as chair of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs and [...]