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Washington Monthly,  April, 2007  by Charles Peters

In a related story by the Washington Post's Jeffrey Birnbaum, we learn that the new chief of staff of the House Energy and Commerce Committee is Dennis B. Fitzgibbons, who was a lobbyist for DaimlerChrysler. In that role, he was generously compensated to oppose laws requiring cars to use alternative fuels and be more energy efficient.

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Now he has the most important staff job on the committee that, as Birnbaum puts it, is "charged with deciding whether automakers should be compelled to do either of those things."

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