Word: waxman
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...Congress--all from urban districts--have given the issue enough thought to come up with a handful of proposals. Most of these proposed solutions involved pumping millions of dollars into the system: Rep. Dante Fascell (D--Fla.) suggested channelling seied drug dealers' assets into trauma care; Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman's bill would give financial help to hospitals in the cities with the worst drug-related violence...
...privately steamed. If George Bush persuaded Congress last year to pass most of his kinder, gentler legislation untouched, Quayle's Council on Competitiveness is spending much of this year making sure that the new environmental and health laws are as beneficial to business as possible. California Democrat Henry Waxman calls the council a "shadow government." Senator Albert Gore believes that the mysterious body allows Bush to pose as an environmentalist long enough "to justify a television commercial. Then, behind the scenes, the ((council)) guts...
...Gail Wilensky, the Federal Health Care Financing Administrator, claims the agency did not know how to reach eligible seniors. "Saying poor, elderly people are out of luck if they don't know the program exists -- because the government isn't going to tell them -- is disgraceful," says Representative Henry Waxman of California, principal author of the 1990 provisions. Family USA hopes that seniors will soon get their benefits. If they don't, it will sue the government...
Some attorneys contend that cameras in the courtroom can have a subtle and damaging effect on the trial itself. Witnesses may be more reluctant to testify, for example, if they know they will be seen on the nightly news by their neighbors. Seth Waxman, a Washington attorney who represented a white- collar defendant in one televised trial, says that jurors afterward made it clear that TV had had an impact; one juror said a witness seemed less credible because she kept nervously glancing at the camera. Argues Waxman: "Any extraneous factor that complicates the fact-finding process ought...
...those things was to ensure passage by Congress of a strict food- labeling bill, sponsored by Democratic Representative Henry Waxman of California. When it appeared that the bill would be shunted aside last year, Sokolof paid a total of $650,000 for full-page ads urging Congress to adopt the measure. Then, concerned that Republican Orrin Hatch of Utah was delaying its passage by tacking amendments to the Senate version of the bill, Sokolof ran ads in the Washington Post, the Washington Times and all the Utah dailies. "Senator Hatch," the ads read, "please cease your attempts to alter...