Bloomberg: Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee agreed on a compromise measure to cut U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions 17 percent by 2020, Chairman Henry Waxman said. The accord, reached yesterday, exceeds the target sought by President Barack Obama. Waxman, a California Democrat who leads the Congressional effort to craft legislation addressing climate change, in March proposed a 20 percent reduction in emissions from 2005 levels. He called the agreed-upon figure “smack in …