Word: waxman
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...Smith, he has written legislation requiring that the sodium and potassium content be marked on all processed and canned foods governed by the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, if the total exceeds 35 mg. The bill is now before a House health subcommittee chaired by California's Henry Waxman. It has 79 co-sponsors in the House, but Gore is worried about its future. Says he: "Salt is the cheapest flavor enhancer. There is an enormous competitive advantage to loading food with salt and not telling people about it." Waxman is worried for the same reason: "We are having...
...opponents. In the Republican-controlled Senate, Vermont's Robert Stafford, chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, has pledged to keep the 1970 Clean Air Act as is, except for minor revisions. When the House Subcommittee on Health and the Environment opened hearings last month, Chairman Henry Waxman of California called the bill "an open invitation for a virtual halt in air-pollution control." At week's end, he announced that he would introduce his own bill to simplify and strengthen the act. After nearly a year of debate, though, nobody knows when...
...Administration's proposed amendments to the Clean Air Act has just been leaked by California Representative Henry Waxman. Among changes urged by the Government...
Congressmen, including some who said they would go along with some "fine tuning" of the Clean Air Act, are upset too. Waxman called the proposals "nothing less than a blueprint for the destruction of our clean air laws." The public is likely to agree; a Harris survey indicated that more than 80% of Americans oppose any weakening of the Clean...
...bruising environmental battle. The Clean Air Act comes up for renewal, and its critics in the automotive, chemical and steel industries are girding to fight for substantial changes. During the campaign, Reagan echoed their charges that the law has damaged productivity, discouraged new investment and eliminated jobs. Says Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Health and the Environment: "If Reagan keeps to his rhetoric, he will declare war on the act. The potential is there for a tremendous battle." Some of the President's supporters are likely to be split on the issue. While businesses want fewer...