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...seven-term incumbent in a comfortably Democratic district, Berman uses his well-known alliance with fellow Congressman Henry Waxman to help get Democrats elected and keep his name afloat. Now that Republicans control Congress, he is less active on the House International Relations and Judiciary committees, focusing more on local issues--protecting Valley jobs and beefing up the police force--and may even run for Mayor...
...jobs represent the most liberal, activist core of the Democratic membership. But they too say they got the message of the 1994 elections. "The goal is not just to have a program but to accomplish the goals that a program is supposed to achieve," says California's Henry Waxman, whose seniority would give him a choice of several committee or subcommittee posts. "The Democratic chairmen were just too wedded to their programs." It is a remarkable statement from a lawmaker who, as chairman of the health subcommittee, single-mindedly drove Medicaid's explosive growth, surreptitiously slipping expensive new benefits into...
...Drug Administration released affidavits given by Uydess and two other former Philip Morris employees, William Farone and Jerome Rivers, that threaten to push the tobacco industry farther out on a legal limb. All three men directly contradict the testimony of former Philip Morris ceo William Campbell before Representative Henry Waxman's 1994 congressional subcommittee. At those hearings Campbell, along with six other tobacco ceos, swore that he did not believe nicotine was addictive, and that Philip Morris did nothing to manipulate or increase nicotine levels in its products...
...statements read like an upside-down and backward image of Campbell's testimony. Campbell told the Waxman subcommittee that "nicotine levels in tobacco are measured at only two points in our manufacturing process: prior to the tobaccos' being blended, and then 18 months later when those leaves have been manufactured into finished cigarettes." But according to Uydess, "Nicotine levels were routinely targeted and adjusted by Philip Morris." Rivers, who was a shift manager at the Richmond plant where the company made reconstituted tobacco, stated that the nicotine level in the product was measured "approximately once per hour...
...remarkable ability to shift gears. "Ninety-five different things have come out in the past, and you have the anti-tobacco people saying this is it, this is going to be the case that brings victory," he says. "But it's a pretty high hurdle." As Congressman Waxman concedes, "Tobacco companies are the strongest special-interest group in Washington...