Rep. Henry Waxman

Democrat  •  30th District, California  •  18th Term  •  Sworn In 1975
Current Term 2009 - 2010 View All
  • Votes with party 98%
  • Abstains: 4%

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10/22/09
Big Oil group's ads attack Lindsey Graham over cap-and-trade

...the energy industry are very excited about what we're trying to do." Graham said he opposes the House bill crafted by Rep. Henry Waxman, a California Democrat who chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Rep. Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democr

Source: McClatchy
10/22/09
RE: Henry Waxman

Listener Takeout: Listeners respond to our interview with Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) about health care reform and the public option.

Source: The Takeaway
10/22/09
Boucher Wants Input on FCC's Program Carriage Complaint Process

Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) said his interest in the video competition issue, which he said the hearing would help frame, ...

Source: Broadcasting & Cable
10/22/09
RE: Henry Waxman

... retired from that job in December 2007, amid criticism from Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and other members of Congress about the Baghdad embassy. ...

Source: USA Today
10/22/09
RE: Henry Waxman

Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Commerce Committee, said, "As President Obama has noted, with barriers to entry that are low and equal ...

Source: The Hill
10/21/09
Takeaways from Wednesday, Oct 21

Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) on his support for a 'public option' in health care reform: (full story) The idea is to spread the risk over the largest number ...

Source: The Takeaway
10/21/09
Takeouts: Public Option; B2B Comeback; Homelessness

... Washingon Takeout: The Takeaway's Washington correspondent Todd Zwillich gives us his reaction to our discussion with Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif. ...

Source: The Takeaway
10/21/09
Radio's Rep. on the DL

We wish Mr. Walden a speedy recovery, and certainly hope that happens before E&C Chair Henry Waxman (D-CA) calls up any particularly thorny broadcast ...

Source: Radio Business Report
10/21/09
RE: Henry Waxman

On Wednesday, Representatives Henry Waxman of California and Joe Barton of Texas — the chairman and ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce ...

Source: New York Times
10/21/09
Markey: FCC Net Neutrality Proposal Needs Legislative Teeth

..."What he cannot accomplish with the rulemaking process, we will do legislatively." House Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) has signed on as a co-sponsor of the legislation. Markey has pushed a similar bill in previous Congress

10/20/09
White House ramps up push to shape health bill

...for Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont. The overriding goal, said House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., is to "try to push members to work out differences in order to keep the bill moving." The effort stu

10/20/09
Medicare for everyone

In an odd reversal, that idea was shot down as too liberal by House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif. ...

Source: The Hill
10/20/09
RE: Henry Waxman

The current US health insurance system stacks the deck against small businesses, according to House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman. ...

Source: National Underwriter Life and Health Insurance News
10/20/09
The Real Abortion Fabrications

...the debate over the summer. A bipartisan amendment by Democrat Bart Stupak and Republican Joe Pitts failed to pass Chairman Henry Waxman's House Energy and Commerce Committee by just one vote. The same committee, however,   narrowly passed an amend

10/20/09
A chance to save the planet

Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and Edward Markey, D-Mass., is not perfect. Although it establishes a federal cap and trade program to monetize carbon, ...

Source: Albany Times Union
10/19/09
Metro wireless service changes were initiated by Waxman

Few mentioned that it was initiated by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), while he was chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. ...

Source: The Hill
10/19/09
Public option re-emerges in Senate discussions; continues to play role in House

...bill is hashed out in conference with senators, according to some of those in attendance" (Soraghan, 10/14). NPR lets Rep. Henry Waxman, of California, sound off on reform in both the Senate and House and a public option: "In the House we stand strongl

10/19/09
Pain With No Gain

Edward Markey of Massachusetts and Henry Waxman of California and passed in the House in June, is intended to cut domestic carbon dioxide emissions by 17% ...

Source: Investor's Business Daily
10/19/09
Health Costs and History

Thanks in part to expansions promoted by California's Henry Waxman, a principal author of the current House bill, Medicaid now costs 37 times more than it ...

Source: Wall Street Journal
10/19/09
Insurers Have Many Practices To Answer For

In an IBD op-ed headlined "Congress' Ugly Intimidation Of An Industry" (On The Right, Oct. 8), Steve Forbes expressed ...

Source: Investor's Business Daily
10/19/09
Why are Democrats sticking with Charlie Rangel?

The single glaring exception, the ouster of John Dingell from the Energy and Commerce chairmanship by Henry Waxman, came by a narrow majority in the ...

Source: Washington Examiner
10/18/09
BOSTON GLOBE: An ambitious climate bill

Like the House bill authored by Rep s. Ed Markey and Henry Waxman, the Senate version puts an overall limit on carbon dioxide emissions, rewarding companies ...

Source: Santa Rosa Press Democrat
10/18/09
Oppose powerful Dems

Face reality, a vote to re-elect Rep. Giffords in 2010 is a vote for Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Reps. Barney Frank, Charles Rangel, Henry Waxman, ...

Source: Green Valley News
10/18/09
Lawmakers question tobacco firms over ban on flavored cigarettes

Committee Chair Henry Waxman (D, Calif.) and Rep. Bart Stupak (D, Mich.) wrote Kretek International in Moorpark, Calif., and Cheyenne International in ...

Source: American Medical News
10/17/09
RE: Henry Waxman

Pelosi has not sent to CBO the compromise worked out in July between House Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and a group of Blue Dogs to ...

Source: The Hill
10/17/09
House liberals see new score as bolstering cause on healthcare

...a public option.” Pelosi has not sent to CBO the compromise worked out in July between House Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and a group of Blue Dogs to get the bill out of committee. That plan would employ negotiated rates withou

Source: The Hill
10/17/09
RE: Henry Waxman

Pelosi has not sent to CBO the compromise worked out in July between House Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and a group of Blue Dogs to ...

Source: The Hill
10/16/09
RE: Henry Waxman

An advocate of government reform, US Rep. Henry Waxman, a California Democrat, recently asked the FCC for specific data on service fund grants. ...

Source: Tampa Tribune
10/16/09
RE: Henry Waxman

Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., who chairs the Energy and Commerce Committee, said the testimony pointed up "a lot of the schemes insurance companies have not ...

Source: Dallas Morning News
10/16/09
Utilities split on climate legislation

Edward Markey, D-Mass., chairman of the House Select Committee on Independence and Global Warming, and Henry Waxman, D-Calif., chairman of the House Energy ...

Source: MarketWatch

Official website: http://www.house.gov/waxman/
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2204 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 202-225-3976
Fax: 202-225-4099

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