All eyes may be focused on how Mayor-elect Vincent C. Gray builds his Cabinet to advance reforms and improvements begun by outgoing Mayor Adrian M. Fenty. But, the legislature has an equally critical role; how Chairman-elect Kwame Brown restructures council committees could be the first signal of the kind of check he intends to place on the executive.
Sources told me Gray has lobbied Brown to appoint Ward 3’s Mary Cheh chairwoman pro tempore and head of the education committee. Further, the chairman-elect may remove the budget from his Committee of the Whole.
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