Rep. Waxman wrote to ONDCP Director John Walters providing a wide range of scientific and medical expert opinions supporting needle exhange programs to prevent the spread of infectious diseases.
Today Rep. Waxman, Chairman Davis, and Sen. McCain introduced a bill to to address the problem of performance enhancing drugs in sports.
On May 23, 2005, the International Advisory and Monitoring Board (IAMB) released several audits of the Oil for Food Program's successor, the Development Fund for Iraq (DFI). These audits suggest serious U.S. mismanagement of DFI funds, and have led Rep. Waxman to call for hearings looking into the matter.
Today the Government Reform Committee holds a hearing on the National Basketball Association's steroid testing policy and its effectiveness in eliminating the use of performance enhancing drugs.
At today's 13th congressional hearing into allegations regarding the U.N. Oil for Food program, Rep. Waxman noted that there have been no hearings on abuses in the Development Fund for Iraq, the successor to the Oil for Food program run by the Bush Administration, despite numerous critical reports by U.S. and other independent auditors and investigators.
Chairman Davis and Rep. Waxman write NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue to request the results of the league's testosterone testing since 1995.
Today Rep. Henry A. Waxman introduced legislation to reverse the Bush Administration’s assault on open government by restoring laws promoting transparency.
Rep. Waxman, Sens. Boxer and Obama, and Reps. Towns and Lynch protest EPA's abandonment of regulations required by law to protect children from exposure to lead in renovated homes.
Rep. Waxman releases an analysis of over 20,000 pages of documents that suggests that Merck sent more than 3,000 highly trained representatives into doctor's offices and hospitals armed with misleading information about Vioxx's risks.
According to GAO, the Administration repeatedly violated federal procurement rules when it awarded this work to CACI International, Inc., to interrogate prisoners in Iraq.
| Rep. Waxman and Rep. Lynch write to Halliburton CEO David Lesar asking for an explanation of discrepancies between Halliburton's July 2004 testimony before the Committee regarding kickbacks taken by a Halliburton employee and an indictment recently handed down by a federal grand jury.
In a letter to Secretary of State Rice, Rep. Waxman questions why Administration officials are refusing to acknowledge a significant rise in worldwide terrorist attacks, despite new reports from the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, three independent organizations, and the Administration's own data.
The President's recent remarks that the Social Security trust funds are "empty promises" that the government "cannot keep" break a 70-year commitment to the American people that Social Security contributions will be held in trust, not diverted to pay for tax cuts and other government expenditures.
The Government Reform Committee holds a hearing examining the National Football League's steroids policy and its effectiveness in reducing the use of prohibited performance-enhancing drugs.
Rep. Waxman, Congresswoman Norton, and Rep. Schakowsky write to the DC Department of Health about a brand of candy known to contain unsafe lead levels available for purchase in the District.
The 2004 data dropped from the State Department's annual Patterns of Global Terrorism Report shows that global terror attacks were more than three times higher than the record levels set in 2003, with large increases in attacks occurring in Iraq, Afghanistan, India/Pakistan, and other regions.
Rep. Waxman asks the State Department Inspector General to examine the decision of Secretary Rice to drop the data on the number of international terrorist attacks from the Department's annual report on patterns of global terrorism.
| Rep. Waxman urges House colleagues to support an energy bill amendment that would require that the Administration reduce oil demand in the U.S. by 1,000,000 barrels per day by 2013.
Chairman Davis and Waxman announce a hearing on the NFL’s drug policy and its effectiveness in reducing the use of prohibited drugs by players.
Rep. Waxman asks Chairman Davis to hold a committee hearing to examine the federal government’s failure to establish an adequate stockpile of vaccines that protect against diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, and other serious childhood diseases.
A new Special Investigations Division Report prepared at the request of Rep. Slaughter finds that the increase in gasoline prices could force motorists in the Buffalo and Rochester areas to pay almost $200 million more for gasoline in the spring and summer than they did over the same time period in 2003.
Rep. Waxman asks the President to direct federal agencies not to condition the receipt of global AIDS or anti-trafficking funds by U.S.-based organizations on the signing of a pledge condemning prostitution.
A new Special Investigations Division report finds that radiation-associated cancer is more common in the Utah counties excluded from the federal Radiation Exposure Compensation Act than in counties where residents are currently eligible for compensation.
In a letter to National Security Subcommittee Chairman Shays, Rep. Waxman details Defense Department audits that reveal that both the amount of Halliburton’s overcharges and the extent of the information withheld from the U.N. auditors are far greater than previously known.
Rep. Waxman asks GAO to assess the costs of the President's "60 Stops in 60 Days" tour and related Administration efforts to rally political support for his Social Security proposals.
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