From the Frontrunner The Hill (11/26, Allen) reports, "Despite growing pressure from colleagues to mount an internal challenge for the Oversight Committee gavel, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) has reiterated to House Democratic leaders his decision to avoid running against his elder on the committee, Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.)." The Hill adds "leadership sources said Cummings made his views known -- and final -- in brief discussions with senior House Democrats on Tuesday morning," in a move that "essentially paves the way for Towns to receive the unanimous recommendation of the Steering and Policy Committee when it meets...to consider the vacant top post on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee."