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Young Bypasses Rules To Retake Defense Panel Gavel

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Monday, January 10th, 2011

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By Emelie Rutherford Rep C.W. "Bill" Young (R-Fla.) is reassuming the chairmanship of the powerful House Appropriations Defense subcommittee (HAC-D), after House Republicans agreed to grant him a waiver of term-limit rules last Friday. Young already had begun his preparations for retaking the HAC-D gavel before the House Republican Steering Committee formally approved him in the spot. He said last Thursday he had been working for weeks on a list of potential Pentagon budget cuts, because he had been assured…

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