WARNER COULD REPLACE INHOFE AS ENVIRONMENT PANEL CHAIR AFTER 2006

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 -- when Warner loses control of the military oversight panel -- even though Inhofe will not have served all six years of his term, sources say. Warner is the senior Republican on the environment committee so if he wanted to force Inhofe out of the chairmanship...