Henry Waxman

Hospital CEO To Step Down Amid Accretive Health Debt-Collection Controversy

The Huffington Post | Jeffrey Young | Posted 05.24.2012

Mark Eustis, the president CEO of a Minnesota hospital company under fire from state and federal authorities for allegedly harsh tactics its employees...

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Dems Seek Info About Firms That Funded Anti-Bribery Law Campaign

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Elijah Cummings, Walmart, Video, Institute for Legal Reform, Bribery Scandal, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Bribery, Anti-Bribery Law, Henry Waxman, US Chamber of Commerce, Wal-Mart, Fcpa, Business News

WASHINGTON -- Two Democratic congressmen are investigating whether the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's tenacious attack on a key anti-bribery statute has l...

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Hospital Debt Collector Taps Washington Bigwigs In Bid To Restore Reputation

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeffrey Young | Posted 05.15.2012

Accretive Health, a debt-collection company under fire for allegedly hounding hospital patients over unpaid bills, has hired former President George W...

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For Your Own Good: Debt Collectors Say They Help Hospital Patients By Demanding Money

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeffrey Young | Posted 05.11.2012

Accretive Health, a debt-collection company under fire from Minnesota and federal officials for aggressive tactics to squeeze money from hospital pati...

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Rahm Emanuel Fights For Widely Criticized Debt Collector

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeffrey Young | Posted 05.08.2012

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants his Democratic colleague Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson to lay off hospital debt-collector Accretive Health,...

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Here Come The Feds: Hospital Debt Collection Under Scrutiny From Obama Cabinet Member And Democrats

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeffrey Young | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Lori Swanson, Debt, Minnesota, Kathleen Sebelius, Health Care Costs, Economy, Jobs, Health Insurance, Henry Waxman, Business, Video, Debt Collectors, Uninsured, Pete Stark, Hospitals, Hhs, Health Care, Healthcare, Business News

Government regulators are looking into reports of aggressive debt collectors hassling patients at hospitals. Health and Human Services Secretary Ka...

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House Passes Student Loan Bill That Cuts Women's Health Program, As Boehner Rails Against 'War On Women'

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Student Loan Interest Rates, Video, Chris Van Hollen, John Boehner, President Obama, Student Loan Fight, Student Loan, Henry Waxman, Student Loans, House Student Loans Bill, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The House of Representatives advanced a bill Friday that funds cheaper student loans by cutting a preventive health care program -- spar...

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Congress Looks Into Walmart's Lobbying Against Anti-Bribery Law

The Huffington Post | Alice Hines | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Elijah Cummings, Retail Industry Leaders Association, Institute for Legal Reform, Walmart Scandal, Walmart Congressional Investigation, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Walmart Bribery, Walmart Mexico, Henry Waxman, Chamber of Commerce, Walmart FCPA, Thomas Hyde, Fcpa, Business News

Two congressmen investigating the Walmart bribery scandal announced on Wednesday that they will also begin probing Walmart's lobbying against the Fore...

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Walmart To Be Investigated By Congress Over Mexican Bribery Scandal

The Huffington Post | Alice Hines | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Elijah Cummings, Video, Congress Walmart, Walmart New York Times, Walmart Bribery, Walmart Investigation, Henry Waxman, Business News

Soon, the world's biggest retailer will be forced to answer to Congress. Two Democratic Representatives launched an investigation Monday afternoon...

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WATCH: Deaf ROTC Soldier Fights To Change Military Acceptance Rules

Posted 03.02.2012

Read More: Soldier, Keith Nolan, US Military, California State University, Tedx, California, Bravo Company, Henry Waxman, Navy, Deaf, Video, Impact News

Growing up, Cadet Private Keith Nolan knew he wanted to be in the military. After high school he went to enlist, but instead, got three words scribble...

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Strict Meth Laws Hurt Consumers, Have Little Effect on Meth Supply

HuffingtonPost.com | Radley Balko | Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Drug Prohibition, Meth, Video, Cold Medicine, Meth Labs, Meth Laws, Drug War, Pfizer, Henry Waxman, Dea, Pseudoephedrine, Drug Laws, Oregon, Politics News

Since 2006, the state of Oregon has had the strictest pseudoephedrine laws in the country. The popular decongestant, a common additive to over-the-cou...

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iPhone Apps Stealing Your Contacts: What You Need To Know

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Gilbert | Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Apple Privacy Debate, Foursquare, Twitter, iPhone Privacy, Henry Waxman, Waxman, Facebook, Foursquare Privacy, Path App, Video, Path Privacy, Privacy Debate, Apple, Path, Iphone App Privacy, iPhone App, Apple Privacy, Iphone, Technology News

The controversy surrounding iPhone apps accessing users' address books appears to have come to a head: The Next Web reports that Rep. Henry Waxman (D-...

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Blank

Peter Mehlman | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: LA Times, Opinion, Henry Waxman, Malcolm Gladwell, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Comedy, Blank the Movie, Humor, Blank Movie, Satire, Political Satire, Peter Mehlman Blank, Video, Comedy News

Blank is the story of Eugene Brusca, a man who had absolutely no opinions on anything, yet became an overnight sensation as a columnist for the Los Angeles Times.

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What the Koch Brothers Say Online But Won't Say Under Oath

Robert Greenwald | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: David Koch, Congress, Henry Waxman, Koch Brothers Exposed, Robert Greenwald, Charles Koch, Keystone XL Pipeline, Brave New Foundation, Koch Industries, Video, Green News

Why will Charles and David Koch produce a video about their position on the Keystone XL oil pipeline and not testify before Congress about it?

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Hauling the Koch Brothers Into Congress

Robert Greenwald | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Green, David Koch, Oil Pipeline, Keystone XL, Koch Brothers Exposed, Koch Brothers, Robert Greenwald, Henry Waxman, Charles Koch, Brave New Foundation, Video, Green News

The Koch brothers are doing whatever they can to avoid testifying in Congress, despite the fact that the Kochs informed the Canadian government of their "direct and substantial" interest in the Keystone XL pipeline.

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House Democrats Seek To Subpoena Koch Industries Over Keystone XL

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 01.25.2012

Read More: Keystone Approval, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Video, Koch Brothers, Lee Terry, Keystone Permit, Keystone XL Pipeline, Ed Whitfield, Koch Industries, Henry Waxman, Solyndra, State Department, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Green News

WASHINGTON -- House Democrats took the political offensive on Keystone Wednesday, seeking to probe connections between the multi-billion dollar projec...

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GOP Rep Proposes Bill To Force Justices To Make Big Decision

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Health Care Case, Supreme Court, Video, Congress, Leonard Lance, Obamacare, Dan Burton, Ppaca, Affordable Care Act, Supreme Court Health Care Case, Henry Waxman, Health Care, Anti-Injunction Act, Barack Obama, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Sensing that the Supreme Court might get cold feet about making a constitutional ruling on the politically charged health care cases in ...

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Companies Inconsistent On Consequences Of 'Regulatory Overreach'

AP | LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 01.25.2012

Read More: Video, Small Business, Regulations, Henry Waxman Epa, Business Regulations, Henry Waxman, Environmental Regulation, Epa, Big Business, Gop, Regulation, Clean Air Regulation, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Large and small companies have told Republican-led congressional committees what the party wants to hear: dire predictions of plant...

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Chu To Congress: Solyndra Decision Not Influenced By Politics

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 11.18.2011

Read More: Fred Upton, Department of Energy Loan Guarantee Program, Bush Administration, White House Solyndra, Doe, Cliff Stearns, China Solar, Steven Chu, Obama Solyndra, Renewable Energy, Joe Barton, Henry Waxman, Secretary of Energy, Solyndra, Solar Loans, Green News

WASHINGTON -- In what amounts to the highest-profile testimony yet in the ongoing Solyndra saga, Energy Secretary Steven Chu took full responsibility...

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'Green News Report' - November 17, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: Department of Defense, Australia, Epa, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Green News Report, Pollution, CAFE Standards, Drought, Video, Conservatives, Big Oil, Corporate Media, Fossil Fuels, Steven Chu, Climate Science, Julia Gillard, Gop, Diana DeGette, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Solar Power, Global Warming, Energy, Farming, Fuel Economy, Fred Upton, Carbon Emissions, Ipcc, Nuclear Power, Environmentalism, Henry Waxman, Barack Obama, Cliff Stearns, Dept of Energy, Carbon Tax, BRAD BLOG, Green News, Joe Barton, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Extreme Weather, Green News

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Political...

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A Changing Climate About Climate Change in D.C.?

Bill Chameides | Posted 01.15.2012

Read More: Ben Santer, House of Representatives, Ed Markey, Richard Muller, America?S Climate Choices, Climate Scientist, Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature, Temperatures, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Solar Forcing, Climate Skeptics, Best, Henry Waxman, Policy, Climate Change Attribution, Temperature Station, Legislation, American Clean Energy and Security Act, Sunspots, Temperature Records, Politics, U.S. Congress, Climate Change, Climate Science, Greenhouse Gases, Global Warming, Global Temperatures, Green News

I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for a Congressional resolution marking the end of climate skepticism -- or the beginning of major climate legislation -- any time soon.

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WATCH: Koch-Funded Climate Skeptic Warns Congress That Global Warming Is Real

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Ben Santer, Ed Markey, Richard Muller, Video, Climate Change Deniers, Koch Brothers, William Chameides, Climate-Change, Climate Change, Henry Waxman, Climate Change Skeptics, Climategate, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Global Warming, Green News

WASHINGTON -- Richard Muller, a prominent scientist long skeptical of the science behind climate change, declared at a congressional briefing on Monda...

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Farm Dust Fear Is 'Fairy Dust,' Democrats Charge

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Farm Dust, Farm Dust Rules, Ed Markey, Video, Rep. Henry Waxman, Kristi Noem, Kristi Noem Farm Dust, Epa, War on the Epa, Henry Waxman, Democrats, Epa Farm Dust Rules, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Democrats mocked a GOP push to bar tougher regulation of "farm dust" Tuesday, saying the idea that the federal government even wants to ...

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Congress Attacks Breathtaking

Wendy Gordon | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: Nrdc, Gray Is Green, Respiratory Disorders, Coal-Fired Power Plants, Asthma, Mercury, Coal Ash, 112th Congress, TRAIN Act, Henry Waxman, Cement Kilns, Clean Air Act, Green News

We cannot wait until the next election. Attacks on our health and environmental safeguards are happening now.

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Do They Actually Cast These Votes? Yes, Virginia, They Do!

Carl Pope | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Public Health, House of Representatives, Henry Waxman, Cement Pollution, Koch Brothers, Green News

Members of the House of Representatives have been casting a string of votes of staggering recklessness and cupidity. These are by far the worst environmental votes cast in any Congress in American history.

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