Political notebook: When did Tennessee last have a 'cardinal' in the U.S. House?
This much was already known: When U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann was appointed earlier this month by his Republican peers as chairman of the Energy and Water Development Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, the congressman from Ooltewah who in January began his seventh term broke a long-time drought for a Tennessee congressman heading a powerful Appropriations panel chairmanship.
Source: timesfreepress.com
