The committee: a study of policy, power, politics, and Obama's historic legislative agenda on Capitol Hill

Foreword : about the authors : two beginnings, one old political hand and one new

Preface : outline of the committee

Hope and change meets the Hill

Cap-and-trade bill : American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009

Confronting Waterloo? : the historic moment for health care reform

A big turn in tobacco road

From presidential "shakedown" to congressional apology : the politics of committee oversight of BP's Deepwater Horizon crisis

When ideological fidelity trumps the common good : the politics that ended the grand bargain

Beyond the historic 111th Congress

Appendix: Committee on Energy and Commerce major accomplishments of the 111th Congress.