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Chairman Waxman Writes Letter Regarding the Deterioration of the Nation's Clean Water Act Enforcement Program
Dec 16, 2008
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Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry A. Waxman and Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman James L. Oberstar wrote to President-elect Obama regarding their investigation into the drastic deterioration of the Clean Water Act enforcement program.
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Chairman Waxman Releases Report Criticizing President's Assertion of Executive Privilege
Dec 15, 2008
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The Committee approved a report supported by Chairman Henry A. Waxman and former Ranking Member Tom Davis finding that President Bush made a “legally unprecedented and an inappropriate use of executive privilege” when he directed Attorney General Mukasey to withhold Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald’s interview of Vice President Cheney from the Committee.
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Administration Abandons Proposal to Weaken Air Quality Protections for National Parks
Dec 10, 2008
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In a series of correspondence from August 2007 to July 2008, Chairman Waxman urged the Environmental Protection Agency not to finalize proposed regulations that would have degraded air quality in our National Parks and other areas with clean air. The Oversight Committee’s investigation of the proposed rulemaking revealed that the agency had conducted no analysis of the proposal’s impact on air quality and that expert technical staff at EPA and the National Park Service opposed the proposal because it would make it easier to build polluting power plants near national parks. On December 10, EPA announced it would not go forward with the regulation.
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Administration Drops Effort to Roll Back Pollution Requirements for Power Plants
Dec 10, 2008
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On July 9, 2008, Chairman Waxman wrote to EPA Administrator Johnson to request information regarding the effects of a proposed rule to weaken the Clean Air Act “new source review” requirements governing power plants, which would allow older power plants to increase their emissions of air pollutants and exacerbate global warming.
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Oversight Committee Holds Hearing on Collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
Dec 9, 2008
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Chairman Waxman and the Oversight Committee held a hearing titled, “The Role of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the Financial Crisis” on Tuesday, December 9, 2008, in 2154 Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing examined the extent to which the actions and policies of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may have contributed to the ongoing crisis.
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Rep. Waxman Delivers Speech on Health Care in the 111th Congress
Dec 8, 2008
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Rep. Henry A. Waxman’s Statement after the Democratic Caucus elected him to be the Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce
Nov 20, 2008
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A Job for Henry Waxman
Nov 19, 2008
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An article about Rep. Waxman by Harold Meyerson in the November 19, 2008 edition of the Washington Post.
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Chairman Waxman Holds Hearing on Hedge Funds and the Financial Market
Nov 13, 2008
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Chairman Waxman and the Oversight Committee held a hearing titled, “Hedge Funds and the Financial Market” on Thursday, November 13, 2008. The hearing examined systemic risks to the financial markets posed by hedge funds and proposals for regulatory and tax reforms.
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Chairman Waxman Praises GAO Transition Efforts
Nov 6, 2008
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Chairman Henry A. Waxman issued a statement regarding the transition efforts of the Government Accountability Office.
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Representative Henry A. Waxman 30th District of California
