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Incoming House Republican Speaker John Boehner (Ohio) has been blazing a path for reform, particularly at the committee level, denying some who felt it was their “turn” to chair a panel when clearly they were the wrong choice for the post, then structuring them with an eye toward true bipartisan input.
 
Yet there is one committee that continues to be hamstrung by jurisdictional politics and old habits that die hard. I’m referring to the Homeland Security Committee and the simple fact that it must share jurisdictional control over the department.

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