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...superiors, committee chairman Henry Waxman (D-Cailf.) and ranking Republican Tom Davis, of Virginia, calling these players? This move is especially surprising because soon after the release of the report, Congress gave strong signals that it would leave the players alone. Davis told USA Today, "We don't want to turn this into a circus," and that Congress wanted to "move on." He also told a radio interviewer that Clemens would not be called to Capitol Hill. What changed? "Clemens has asked for a public vindication," Davis says now, referring to his recent blitz of denials...
Many pharmaceutical firms have drawn criticism for extending their franchises through frivolous lawsuits blocking equivalent generic drugs that are much less expensive. To allow drug companies to recoup investments and collect healthy returns, the Hatch-Waxman Act of 1984 gives companies 20-year monopolies from the day they patent a product. (After that, revenues from a drug can drop as much as 80% within months as generics erode the market.) The law allows drug firms a 30-month monopoly extension to resolve patent disputes. That loophole is much abused. Companies often sue generic manufacturers just to buy time...
...Iraq. "One consistent element in these allegations is that you believe your foremost mission is to support the Bush Administration, especially with respect to Iraq and Afghanistan, rather than act as an independent and objective check on waste, fraud and abuse on behalf of U.S. taxpayers," said Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, which has an ongoing investigation. In response, Krongard issued a statement, claiming, "The allegations, as described to me and in certain media reports, are replete with inaccuracies including those made by persons with their own agendas...
...wake of the revelations about the possible immunity offer, which were first reported Monday by the Associated Press, Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that is investigating Blackwater, fired off a letter Tuesday to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice raising a series of issues. As Waxman puts it: "This rash grant of immunity was an egregious misjudgment. It raises serious questions about who conferred the immunity, who approved it at the State Department, and what their motives were." Waxman requests written responses to his queries by no later than noon on Friday, November...
...Among the uncomfortable questions that Waxman addresses to Secretary of State Rice is: "When did you, Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte, former Assistant Secretary of State Richard Griffin, Ambassador David Satterfield [senior advisor on Iraq], and Ambassador [to Iraq] Ryan Crocker learn of the grant of immunity?" and "What consultation, if any, was conducted with the Justice Department prior to the offers of immunity?" Waxman also seeks to determine whether the State Department has conferred immunity during any other investigations of contractors in Iraq...