Topic: Henry Waxman
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Safety legislation born out of the Toyota Motor Corp recall saga and opposed by automakers will be revived in the Senate this year, the chairman of the Commerce Committee said on Tuesday.John Rockefeller of West Virginia said after a ...
In a leadership vote on November 20, 2008, Waxman unseated Michigan Representative John Dingell to become the head of the powerful House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Longtime Head of House Energy Panel Is Ousted (November 20, 2008) Waxman served six years ...
In 2007 , during a Congressional investigation into the reasons behind the White House 's firing of eight United States Attorneys , it was revealed that White House staffers had been using e-mail accounts provided by the Republican National Committee (RNC) to ...
When the Democrats took over control of the House of Representatives following last November's election, U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman became chairman of the Government Reform Committee, the principal investigative committee of the House. Waxman's first target he has previously said there are ...
Even though California was fast-growing and a substantial contributor to the nation's power, the ?pork? and federal attention disproportionately found its way to states such as Arkansas, West Virginia, Mississippi, Texas, and Massachusetts because that's where the committee chairs and speakers were ...
Khrushchevpredicted the Soviet Union would bury us and since they?re now on the trashheap of history is the Liberal Politburo of left-wing academics, corruptpoliticians and their lamestream propaganda machine digging the grave instead?The Obama administration?s takeover of America?s health caresystem, the financial ...
Two influential Democratic lawmakers warned on Friday that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could derail a $150 million clean-energy home-financing program and urged the Obama administration to rectify the problem with new regulatory guidance.. Rep. Barney Frank, chairman of the U.S. House ...
The House of Representatives today passed H.R. 5019, the Homestar Energy Retrofit Act of 2010, by a vote of 246 to 161. Passing Home Star says, 'Help is on the way,'" said Henry Waxman, the California Democrat who chairs the Committee on ...
A top House Democrat says party leaders are unlikely to cut a deal with abortion opponents to pass President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.Rep. Henry Waxman tells The Associated Press that "the likely outcome" is that Speaker Nancy Pelosi will move ahead ...
Drug firms threatening to end support for health overhaul in biotech drug disputeThe drug industry is threatening to end its support for President Barack Obama's health overhaul effort because of a rift with the administration over protecting brand-name biotech drugs from low-cost ...
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