Warner Could Replace Inhofe As Environment Panel Chair In 2007

Senate Republican rules setting six-year terms for GOP committee chairmen could allow Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John Warner (R-VA) to replace Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) as head of the environment committee in 2007, even though Inhofe will not have served all six years of his term, sources say. Environmentalists are pushing this idea and say Warner would be a more moderate environment committee chairman than Inhofe. Warner, who has been on the Environment & Public Works Committee (EPW) since...