Larsen will succeed outgoing committee chairman, Oregon’s Representative Peter DeFazio, who is retiring after serving thirty-six years in Congress. He beat out D.C.‘s Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton for the committee’s top Democratic spot. Larsen has served as chairman of the panel’s Aviation Subcommittee.
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