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Representative Henry Waxman of California will be the first to heed the FDA's call for action, holding hearings before his Subcommittee on Health and the Environment. Waxman believes that "people should be allowed to smoke but not endanger others by subjecting them to secondhand smoke." Besides restricting smoking in public places, he says, the government might regulate the levels of nicotine in cigarettes and require warnings that the chemical is addictive...
...Soka development proposed is opposed by every environmental group in California, by the U.S. National Park Service and Bruce Babbitt, by the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, and by US Congress members like Anthony Beilenson, Howard Berman and Henry Waxman. Your story made no mention of this opposition...
Clinton listened to his top advisers debate the wisdom of cutting $238 billion out of Medicare and Medicaid over the next five years, and heard warnings that House liberals led by Henry Waxman of California would oppose the plan if a slash that deep was made. But Clinton reassured them, "We need to lead with what we think is the best approach. If Congress changes it, fine, but we will have looked at all the options and we will know why we chose what we choose...
...children." His remarks came a day after Hillary Rodham Clinton denounced the cost of childhood vaccines -- which have risen 1,000% in a decade -- and suggested that drugmakers would oppose the Administration's forthcoming health-care reforms. The industry's earnings also came under attack; Democratic Congressman Henry Waxman of California last week unveiled a 354-page Office of Technology Assessment report that charged that drug firms raked in $2 billion of "excess profits" a year and lavished vast sums on "wasteful" campaigns to encourage doctors to prescribe pricey medications...
None of this has gone completely unnoticed by the Washington community. Both Democratic Sen. John Glenn of Ohio and Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Ca.) have attempted to call Quayle and the Council on some of their more egregious actions. Every few months, another newspaper will write a feature about the Council. The facts about Quayle are out there; they just can't compete with his potato-head image...