A battle over the chairmanship of a key energy committee in the US House of Repre- sentatives has been won by Fred Upton, a Republican from Michigan who is pushing for aggressive oversight of the Obama admin- istration's regulation of the energy industry. Upton was selected to head the Energy and Commerce Committee by the House Re- publican Steering Committee, a 34-member panel made up of allies of incoming House Speaker John Boehner.
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