Thursday, November 16, 2006

Now it's Pelosi / Harman

Another interesting power battle underway between two of the richest and most powerful women in Congress - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Congresswoman Jane Harman.

Jane wants House Intelligence Committee Chair and may not get it - it's Nancy's choice and they say she'll probablly dis Jane.


TL The panel's ranking Democrat is her fellow Californian Jane Harman -- smart and hardworking but also abrasive, ambitious and, in Pelosi's estimation, insufficiently partisan on the committee. So Pelosi, once the intelligence panel's ranking Democrat herself, has made clear that she doesn't intend to name Harman to the chairmanship.