Democrat from california. Some of the companies she represents in her district include facebook, googlele, netflix, mozilla. You recently said you wanted to be the new Ranking Member, the top democrat to replace the retiring henry waxman. Why do you want that position . First of all i think that the committee itself, the energy and commerce committee, which is one of the oldest committees in the congress, is really the committee of the future. Its jurisdictionses are so broad and so powerful and its very citing and so to step into that position, which is not easy to do, because you have to be elected by your colleagues, i think is an enormous opportunity to leverage everything that is there, not only in communications and the internet and technology but how that is applied to increasingly to health care, the other jurisdictionses, the f. D. A. , the m. I. H. , and so its very exciting. And i think that i have a skill set that fits with that and the leadership style that can leverage th