Going, but not gone

From Al Kamen's WashPost column:

Wishful holiday thinking? At the House Judiciary Committee Christmas party last week, ranking Democrat John Conyers Jr. (Mich.) rose to toast Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), and lamented how it was Sensenbrenner's last year as chairman. All very nice and in keeping with the holiday spirit except: Sensenbrenner has another year left as chairman.