Pelosi plans to replace Harman on Intel Committee

[Rose Siding]

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Rep. Jane Harman (Calif.) has been the House intelligence panel's ranking Democrat for three years. She would like to hold the post several more years......

Nonetheless, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has told colleagues she plans to replace Harman with Rep. Alcee L. Hastings (D-Fla.) when the 110th Congress convenes in January 2007, assuming all three members are reelected next year. Hastings, the committee's next-most-senior Democrat, is African American, and the Congressional Black Caucus strongly backs his claim on the post.

The CBC is an influential player in Pelosi's 202-member Democratic caucus, and its members are sensitive on this issue. They remember that black lawmaker Sanford Bishop (D-Ga.) lost his January 2003 bid to be the intelligence committee's ranking Democrat when Pelosi gave the post to Harman. Bishop and his allies said he had greater seniority, noting that Harman had quit the House in 1998 to run unsuccessfully for governor. But Democratic leaders, in persuading Harman to reclaim her seat in 2000, had restored her committee seniority.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/26/AR2005092601395.html

I think that's good. Harman is too hawkish, and the CBC deserves a higher profile within the party.

[Zeke]

1. More Fundamental Than Hawkish...

Jane Harmon is a dumbshit Democrat
who votes for everything Republican
in the mold of Dianne Feinsteinn.

I'm a CA-Native and both Di-Fi &
Harman can, and should, go to Hell.

[FreedomAngel82]

2. Maybe Pelosi is taking a play from Dean

Replace republican dino's with true progressive's. If you can't get the job done get out of the way. ;)