Foreword : about the authors : two beginnings, one old political hand and one new -- Preface : outline of the committee -- Hope and change meets the Hill -- Cap-and-trade bill : American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 -- Confronting Waterloo? : the historic moment for health care reform -- A big turn in tobacco road -- From presidential "shakedown" to congressional apology : the politics of committee oversight of BP's Deepwater Horizon crisis -- When ideological fidelity trumps the common good : the politics that ended the grand bargain -- Beyond the historic 111th Congress -- Appendix: Committee on Energy and Commerce major accomplishments of the 111th Congress.
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