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===Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman=== Emanuel assumed the position of [[Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee]] chairman (DCCC) after the death of the previous chair, [[Bob Matsui]]. Emanuel led the Democratic Party's effort to capture the majority in the House of Representatives in the 2006 elections. The documentary ''[[HouseQuake]]'', featuring Emanuel, chronicles those elections.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/us/politics/22baker.html|title=Emanuel at the Epicenter: Then and Now|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|last=Baker|first=Peter|date=October 21, 2009|access-date=February 12, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170207223839/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/us/politics/22baker.html|archive-date=February 7, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> Emanuel had disagreements over Democratic election strategy with [[Democratic National Committee]] Chairman [[Howard Dean]]. Dean favored a "[[fifty-state strategy]]", building support for the Democratic Party over the long term, while Emanuel advocated a more tactical approach focusing attention on key districts.<ref name="Time_Allen_20060604">{{cite news|last1=Allen|first1=Mike|last2=Bacon|first2=Perry Jr.|title=Whose Party Is It Anyway?|date=June 4, 2006|magazine=Time|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,1200740,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930121906/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,1200740,00.html|archive-date=September 30, 2007}}</ref> [[File:Rahm Emanuel DNC 2008.jpg|thumb|right|Emanuel speaks during the second day of the [[2008 Democratic National Convention]] in [[Denver]], Colorado ]] The Democratic Party gained 30 seats in the House in the [[United States House elections, 2006|2006 elections]], and Emanuel received considerable praise for his stewardship of the DCCC, even from Illinois Republican Rep. [[Ray LaHood]], who said, "He legitimately can be called the golden boy of the Democratic Party today. He recruited the right candidates, found the money, and funded them, and provided issues for them. Rahm did what no one else could do in seven cycles."<ref name="WP_Haygood_20061108">{{cite news|last=Haygood|first=Wil|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=November 9, 2006|page=C05|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/08/AR2006110802239.html|access-date=January 3, 2007|title=Democratic 'Golden Boy' Rahm Emanuel, Basking In the Glow of Victory|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080830023233/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/08/AR2006110802239.html|archive-date=August 30, 2008|url-status=live}}</ref> However, Emanuel also faced some criticism for his failure to support some progressive candidates, as Howard Dean advocated.<ref>{{cite web|title=Justin Coussoule Confirms Obama/Kaine Threw Out Dean's 50 State Strategy And Have Given Him NO Support|date=August 14, 2010|work=Crooks and Liars|url=http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/justin-coussoule-confirms-obamakaine|access-date=February 17, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708204843/http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/justin-coussoule-confirms-obamakaine|archive-date=July 8, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> Emanuel had "aggressively recruited right-leaning candidates, frequently military veterans, including former Republicans". Many of the Representatives that Rahm had recruited, such as [[Heath Shuler]], ended up "[voting] against important Obama administration priorities, like economic stimulus, banking reform, and health care". Progressive activist [[Howie Klein]] has suggested that Emanuel's congressional campaign strategy was short-sighted, as it "contributed to the massive G.O.P. majorities we have now, the biggest since the nineteen-twenties" when the Democrats lost control of the House in the 2010 mid-term elections.<ref name="newyorker.com"/> After Emanuel's election as chairman of the Democratic Caucus (see below), [[Chris Van Hollen]] became committee chair for the 110th Congress.
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