Henry Waxman

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• Politics California Style: Nancy Pelosi and Henry Waxman

  
  Big Government — Authority: 813
  The success of the Chicago-style politics of Dick Durbin, Rahm Emmanuel and Barack Obama, characterized by brass knuckles, intense bullying, finger pointing and public attacks has been mesmerizing.  Meanwhile, very  little attention has been focused on the California-style politics of obfuscation and intimidation ...
  5 days ago

• Dems Want GAO to Examine Skyrocketing Prescription Prices

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 157
  On Monday, The New York Times ran a damning story detailing how the nation’s drug makers are hiking their prices ahead of the reform laws winding their way through Congress. The very next day, some powerful House Democrats called for a closer look, asking the Government Accountability Office to examine the drug ...
  6 days ago

• Pull the plug on the climate change bill

  
  Featured States News — Authority: 160
  Original Author:  desmoinesdem Few problems require federal action more urgently than global warming. I admire the members of Congress who have been trying to address this issue. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman tried to get the best deal he could. ...
  1 week ago

• What to Do When Caught Spamming the Congressional Record? Raise Drug Prices!

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 766
  This takes some serious stones : Even as drug makers promise to support Washington’s health care overhaul by shaving $8 billion a year off the nation’s drug costs after the legislation takes effect, the industry has been raising its prices at the fastest rate in years. [] This year’s increases mean the ...
  1 week ago

• Drug Ads May Be Dangerous To Health

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 553
  Over the past 10 years, pharmaceutical companies have embarked on an aggressive campaign to directly advertise their wares to individuals. Prior to this trend, drug companies would focus all attention to prescribing physicians. Although the movement to direct advertising may be viewed as a component of patient ...
  1 week ago

• The Algebra of Need: Cancer, Biologics, PhRMA

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 766
  My wife , the writer and scholar Anne Friedberg , died last month.  She was 57 years old.  She died of colorectal cancer. In the year prior to her death she had radiation therapy, chemotherapy, two major surgeries.  We are among the fortunate: because of my union membership, I have an insurance plan that ...
  1 week ago

• Despite some benefit, drug ads can be harmful to your health

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 643
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• Blackwater approved payments in Iraq shooting

  
  Mountain Sage — Authority: 134
  Yet another contractor acting badly.  While KBR used to be a division of Halliburton, Blackwater was subcontracted by Halliburton.   Rep. Waxman preveiously criticized the State Department’s handling of several incidents involving Blackwater where Blackwater paid off victims families rather than face an ...
  1 week ago

• House Passes Health Care Refore Bill

  
  Jeffrey A. Setaro — Authority: 422
  I meant to post this yesterday but it slipped through the cracks of what was another manic Monday. The House of Representatives passed Nancy Pelosi’s 1,990 page health care reform bill by a vote of 220 to 215 on Saturday night. The House of Representatives late Saturday night approved a historic bill to remake ...
  2 weeks ago

• WH denies Afghan decision made, as tensions flare with Pentagon

  
  BeltwayBlips - Top Political News, Videos, and Blogs — Authority: 557
  Washington (CNN) - White House National Security Adviser Retired Gen. Jim Jones issued a rare public statement Monday vehemently denying media reports suggesting President Obama has privately decided to send close to 40,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan, as tensions between the White House and Pentagon appear to be ...
  2 weeks ago

• Latte Links (11/8)

  
  Caffeinated Thoughts — Authority: 142
  Some miscellany I’m reading while rendering video.  Always a fun job, so if you are looking for video from the “Leadership for Iowa” event that I was at last night… hopefully will have some video up tonight of Governor Tim Pawlenty’s speech (no promises), and video of the different gubernatorial ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Tea Gets Iced

  
  HYSTERICAL RAISINS — Authority: 469
  Congressman Lloyd Doggett, Democrat of Texas: To help cover huge medical bills in Bastrop, Texas, they hold a Main Street pancake supper, an American Legion auction. Essential health care shouldn’t depend on the kindness of strangers, the goodness of neighbors, and certainly not the just say “No” of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rep Weiner Statement on Passage of Historic Health Care Legislation...

  
  Lost in the Ozone... — Authority: 436
  Representative Anthony Weiner (D – Brooklyn and Queens), a member of the Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee and Co-Chair of the Caucus on the Middle Class, released the following statement on the passage of the House health care reform bill: "About five and half months ago I said I believed that the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Congress reluctant on intervening with NFL’s and players’ dispute

  
  Anabolic Steroids Blog - iSteroids . com — Authority: 141
  After NFL commissioner Roger Goodell’s appeal to congress to amend federal labor law to allow professional sports league to suspend players who tested positive for drug tests , the Congress issued a statement last Tuesday regarding their reluctance to intervene and even encouraged the NFL and the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Single-Payer Updates with Action Item for Today - Call the Rules Committee Members

  
  Working for Our Common Good — Authority: 130
  Speaker Nancy Pelosi November 6, 2009 Press Release Pelosi Statement on Congressman Anthony Weiner’s Single Payer Alternative Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement today on Congressman Anthony Weiner’s single payer alternative: "Within the next few days, the House will ...
  2 weeks ago

• Reps. Conaway and Green: Champions of Radio

  
  Radio 2020 — Authority: 121
  There is a discussion of the Performance Rights Act (PRA) scheduled for November 17 on Capitol Hill.  Among the invited participants are National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) President/CEO Gordon Smith and Joint Board Chair/Commonwealth Broadcasting President/CEO Steve Newberry, as well as representatives of ...
  2 weeks ago

• More on Secy. Chu’s convoluted climate economics

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 644
  In recent testimony before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, energy secretary Steven Chu makes a convoluted case for S. 1733, the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, a.k.a. the Kerry-Boxer cap-and-trade bill. Chu argues roughly as follows. Global investment in wind turbines and solar panels ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bachmann’s ‘House Call’ obstructionist health reform policy as pathology

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 676
  Controversial Minnesota Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is hosting a “ House Call ” urging Tea Party activists to storm the Capitol today to oppose health care reform. The underlying politics of this is simply pathology, says longtime journalist Marc Cooper . We live in a country where 50 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Removing the stigma of HIV-AIDS

  
  Denver Post: All Blogs — Authority: 718
  Today, new rules will be published in the Federal Register that rescind a 22-year-old travel ban on HIV-positve visitors to the U.S. It’s a long time coming.The president announced the overturning of the ban during a ceremony Friday in which he signed into law the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Waxman to Eshoo: You’ve Got an “Evergreening Problem”

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 766
  In her response to my article on her biologics bill, Anna Eshoo vehemently claims it doesn’t allow “evergreening,” which would allow slight tweaks in drug formulas to grant drug companies endless monopolies and keep these lifesaving drugs from ever becoming generics: There is no ‘evergreening’ clause ...
  3 weeks ago

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