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...appears that the Senate Finance Committee is planning to go along with the White House-drug industry arrangement. With the White House and Senate siding with the drug industry, the House will face an uphill battle when the two versions reach a conference committee. Still, Waxman vows, "I think what we're doing is the right policy, and I'd rather benefit the seniors than let the drug companies have a big windfall...
...House Democrats are none too pleased by the White House pact with the drug industry. "We were never part of that deal. We are not bound by that deal," says Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, one of three panels that wrote the House bill. "It was not particularly a deal I would have made...
...1990s. Essentially, a wider "age band," like the 5-to-1 ratio insurers favor, would allow them to charge higher amounts to middle-aged people not yet old enough to qualify for Medicare, while keeping younger people's premiums much lower. In a recent letter to Henry Waxman - chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, one of five congressional committees with jurisdiction over health reform - the president and CEO of Blue Shield of California wrote, "Given the systematic consequences of imposing such a tight band, we strongly urge you to widen...
...newcomer to the capital, fights for money in Congress, there's a bigger battle brewing over the carbon cap-and-trade bill. Co-sponsored by Democratic lawmakers Henry Waxman and Edward Markey, the bill barely passed the House last month and will soon be taken up by the Senate. The legislative fight has mostly centered on how tight the carbon caps should be, but part of the revenues created by the cap - which would require some companies to pay for carbon credits - will be directed to energy research and development...
...Democrats who need their votes to pass bills. Blue Dogs voted in favor of a number of Bush-era proposals, including the war in Iraq and warrantless wiretapping. They forced Obama to institute a pay-as-you-go budget plan for his $787 billion stimulus bill, recently delayed the Waxman-Markey climate-change energy bill and blocked legislation that would benefit unions. And now seven of the eight Blue Dogs on the House Energy and Commerce Committee have threatened to vote down Obama's health-care legislation...