The Vermont independent is taking over the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee with plans to both embrace his activist roots and work across the aisle.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) announcement Thursday that she will not seek a leadership position for the House Democratic Caucus next session will end her 20-year tenure as the top Democrat in the body. Pelosi has been elemental in many key moments since she took over as House Democrats’ leader in 2003 and as House Speaker…