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Ironic Photo Op Alert

January 24, 2007 11:01 AM

ABC News' Jake Tapper Reports: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and one of the old bulls of the House, Rep. John "Dirty Air" Dingell, D-Mich, will hold an ironic photo op at the Washington Auto Show today.

Dingell, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is at odds with Pelosi and many other environmentalist Democrats (and Republicans) over fuel efficiency standards for cars. Dingell, after all, represents auto-manufacturing state Michigan, and for years he has been one of the chief roadblocks to such standards.

It has gotten to the point that Pelosi last week announced the formation of a new House Select Committee on Climate Change, to be chaired by green-y Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass.  Dingell snarled at the creation of the committee, saying it wasn't needed. But it may be the most efficient way for Pelosi to implement legislation intended to combat global warming while surpassing Dingell's committee, where such measures would likely be watered down.

At 3:30 pm today, the two will pose for photographs with various cars, the machines that stand between them. Though their focus today, kumbaya-style, will be hybrid vehicles.

Read more on the "Political Punch" blog.

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