N.Y. congresswoman wins Oversight chair in a first
Veteran New York Rep. Carolyn Maloney, 73, was elected Wednesday to lead the House Oversight and Reform Committee, the first woman to hold the job in the panel’s 92-year history.
Maloney defeated Virginia Rep. Gerry Connolly by a 133-86 vote in a secret ballot among the full Democratic caucus. She succeeds the late Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, who died last month.