Rep. Moran Likely to Lead Panel that Funds Environmental Agencies. By Noelle Straub, Greenwire, February 10, 2010. "Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) is poised to take the chairmanship of the House Interior and Environment Appropriations Subcommittee, as current Chairman Norm Dicks (D-Wash.) is expected to move over to the coveted Defense subpanel. The reshuffling comes after the death earlier this week of Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) due to complications from gallbladder surgery. Dicks, who is the next most senior Democrat on the Defense Subcommittee, will 'likely succeed' his friend Murtha at that position, said his chief of staff George Behan... Moran will likely take over the subcommittee that shapes the budgets of the Interior Department, U.S. EPA and Forest Service if the decision is made by strict seniority, Behan added... The possibility of Moran as chairman drew praise from environmentalists."
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