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Democrats Divided Over Waxman's Plan To Grill Insurance Executives

The Hill | Jared Allen | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Option, President Obama, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance Industry, Henry Waxman, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Blue Dog Democrats, Waxman Insurance Hearings, Health Insurance Hearings, Transparency, Politics News

Democrats are split over Rep. Henry Waxman's (D-Calif.) plan to hold high-profile hearings to pressure the insurance industry. Some are convinced tha...

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Joe Barton: Republicans Will Repeal Health Care Reform If It Passes

Washington Independent | David Weigel | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Joe Barton, Healthcare Reform, 2010 Elections, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Politics News

On a conference call last month, Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) hedged a little bit on the question of whether Republicans, if they won a congressional ma...

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Jeff Muskus

House Health Bill Clears Last Committee Before Floor Vote, Recess

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: House Energy and Commerce Committee, August Recess, Health Care Reform, Henry Waxman, Health Care, Health Reform, House Health Care Bill, Politics News

After nearly two weeks of delays, a health care bill passed the House Energy and Commerce Committee late Friday night, setting the stage for a full fl...

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Congressman Courtney on Health Care: "Failure Is Not an Option"

Kit Gallant | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Joe Courtney, Committee on Education and Labor, America's Affordable Health Choices Act, Hr 3200, Healthcare Reform, Healthcare, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Politics News
Kit Gallant

This afternoon, I spoke with Representative Joe Courtney. We discussed misinformation, hypocrisy, economic recovery, the importance of grass-roots support and the urgent need for reform.

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Henry Waxman's Decade-Long Fight to Improve the Clean Air Act

David Roberts | Posted 08.29.2009 | Green

Read More: John Dingell, Strategy, Henry Waxman, Air Pollution, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Clean Air Act, Green News
David Roberts

Henry Waxman's The Waxman Report: How Congress Really Works is a series of first-person yarns containing startling measures of suspense, drama, and pathos.

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Sam Stein

Maxine Waters: Rahm To Blame For Obstructionist Blue Dogs

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Blue Dog Democrats Maxine Waters, Obama Blue Dogs, Rahm Emanuel, Emanuel Chickens Roost, Health Care Compromise, Emanuel Blue Dogs, Blue Dog Democrats, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Politics News

One of Congress's most liberal members, Rep. Maxine Waters, (D-Calif.), declared on Tuesday that the White House's problems getting Blue Dog Democrats...

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Talk Radio Rules Blue Dog States

Sue Wilson | Posted 08.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Arkansas, Michael Copps, Republican National Committee, Rush Limbaugh, Rnc, Lousiana, Indiana, Ohio, Susan Crawford, Georgia, Obama Health Care, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Utah, Blue Dog Seven, Fcc, Sean Hannity, Tennessee, 1996 Telecommunications Act, Blue Dog Democrats, Media News
Sue Wilson

22 percent of Americans get their news from talk radio, and conservative talkers, like Hannity and Limbaugh, have been lying to their listeners about what's in the health care bill.

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Jeff Muskus

Blue Dogs Keeping Health Care Stuck In Committee

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mike Ross, Health Care Reform, Blue Dogs, Baron Hill, Henry Waxman, Nancy Ann DeParle, Health Care, Health Reform, Charlie Melancon, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Politics News

Henry Waxman is looking to resume health care negotiations Thursday night. Maybe. Waxman (D-Calif.) heads the House Energy and Commerce Committee, th...

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Arthur Delaney

Blue Dogs Party After Health Care Reform Markup Canceled

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Transparency, Health Care Reform, Blue Dogs, Party Crasher, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News

The House Committee on Energy and Commerce was supposed to be the third leg supporting health care reform legislation already approved by two other Ho...

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Jeff Muskus

Waxman: Health Care On Track To Meet Deadline

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mike Ross, Jane Harman, Health Care Reform, House Health Care Bill, Henry Waxman, Health Care, Health Reform, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Politics News

Democrats on the Energy and Commerce Committee met behind closed doors Monday as they worked to become the third and final House committee to approve ...

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Free Allowances to Utilities Are Not Dividends to Consumers

Mike Sandler | Posted 07.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Dividend, Cap and Trade, Utility Companies, Waxman-Markey, Aces, American Clean Energy and Security Act, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Green News
Mike Sandler

It would be as if the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 legislated monetary policy through 1940. Ridiculous, right? I mean, who had the crystal ball to predict that Great Depression thing?

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President Obama Folding on Promise to Make Corporations Pay to Pollute?

Josh Nelson | Posted 07.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy Policy, House Energy and Commerce Committee, President Obama, Politics, Green News, Clean Energy, Green, Green Energy, Global Warming, Energy, American Clean Energy and Security Act, Climate Change, Green News
Josh Nelson

Sensing the political difficulty of fulfilling his campaign promise of making polluters pay for poisoning the planet, Obama has indicated willingness to compromise on a fundamental principle.

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Jeff Muskus

Rangel Wants Health Care Before Climate Change

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: House Energy and Commerce Committee, Charles Rangel, Climate Change, House Ways and Means Committee, Henry Waxman, Charlie Rangel, House Climate-Change Bill, Politics News

Don't even think about climate change before health care, Charlie Rangel said Wednesday night. Long on the periphery of the climate-change debate, Ra...

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Jeff Muskus

Waxman Gives GOP One More Day To Stall On Climate Change

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: House Energy and Commerce Committee, Doyle, Shimkus, Amendments, GOP Holdup, House Climate-Change Bill, Van Hollen, Climate Change, Henry Waxman, Barton, Markup, Blunt, Politics News

Henry Waxman has had just about enough. The House Energy and Commerce Committee's climate-change bill has been besieged by hundreds of (mostly Republi...

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Joe Barton Begins "Guerrilla Warfare" On Climate Bill

The Washington Independent | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Joe Romm, Edward Markey, Waxman Markey Bill, Joe Barton, Henry Waxman, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Politics News

The markup session for the landmark Waxman-Markey climate and energy bill is underway in the House Energy and Commerce Committee (live webcast from C-...

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Eco-Hitched

Michael DeJong | Posted 06.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Tree-Hugging, John Muir, National Environmental Plan, Cleaning Industrial Complex, Insecticides, Market-Based Cap, Big Coal, President Obama, Energy Legislation, Carbon Pollution, Household Cleaners, Design for the Environment, Clorox Green Works™, Chairmen Waxman and Markey, House Energy and Commerce Committee, ” “Greenwashing” Niche Market, Big Oil, Dirty Coal, Loyal Consumers, Environmental Protection Agency, ” “Green, Clorox Corporation, House Democrats, Chlorine Bleaches, Clorox Net Earnings of $461 Million, Green Economy, Petrochemical-Based, Addicted to Oil, Sierra Club, “Natural, Green Living, Britta, Green News
Michael DeJong

I hope that the Sierra Club continues to support the new proposed bill more enthusiastically than they have the "greenwashing" efforts of their shot-gun bride, Clorox Corporation.

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Green News Report - May 7, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 06.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, House of Representatives, Cotton, President Obama, Factory Farms, Department of Interior, LED Light Bulbs, Big Ag, Globalization, Bats, Green News Report, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Climate Change Legislation, Energy Efficiency, Compact Flourescent Lightbulbs, Green News, Wildfires, Polar Bears, Climate Change, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Ethanol, Auto Industry, Bush Midnight Regulations, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

In Today's Audio Report: Fires and bats and bears -- Oh My!; Congress to offer Cash For Clunkers; Some Democrats side with Republicans in stalling cli...

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Newt King Coal & Other Big Oil Buffoons

Josh Dorner | Posted 05.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Al Gore, Peabody Coal, Congressional GOP, John Dingell, Clean Energy, Henry Waxman, Tea Parties, Newt Gingrich, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Dick Cheney, Big Oil, John Warner, Epa, Steven Chu, American Solutions for Winning the Future, Big Coal, Joe Barton, Lisa Jackson, Sierra Club, Global Warming, Shimkus, Green News
Josh Dorner

This week, the defenders of dirty energy really, really outdid themselves in their efforts to try and derail the clean energy jobs plan currently starting to wend its way through the House of Representatives.

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Markey Takes Chairmanship of Key Energy & Environment Subcommittee -- House Geared for Action

David Roberts | Posted 02.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, House of Representatives, Ed Markey, Democratic Congress, Congress, Rick Boucher, Nancy Pelosi, Environment, Climate Change, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Green News
David Roberts

This is a big deal, even if you don't particularly care about inside Congressional baseball. The Energy and Environment Subcommittee has something the Select Committee does not: subpoena power and legislative jurisdiction.

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Europe's, China's carmakers ask for help; Waxman wins key Congressional post

Steve Parker | Posted 12.23.2008 | Business

Read More: House of Representatives, Congress, Chrysler, America, Ford Mustang, Rick Wagoner, Cars, Gas/Electric Hybrid, John Dingell, Ford, Clean Diesel, Chevy Silverado, Dodge Durango Hybrid, Los Angeles Auto Show, Chevy Malibu Hybrid, General Motors, Robert Nardelli, Japanese Cars, Washington, Detroit, Mercury Milan Hybrid, Michigan, Chrysler Aspen Hybrid, California, Ford Fusion Hybrid, Alan Mulally, Detroit Three, Chevrolet, Henry Waxman, Democrats, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Senate, ABC News, Angela Merkel, Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis, Asian, Opel, European, Business News
Steve Parker

In a major win for all consumers, Democrats in the House of Representatives voted Thursday to put Rep. Henry Waxman of California in charge of a key p...

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Will Waxman the Big Tobacco Fighter Take on Big Oil?

Kevin Grandia | Posted 12.21.2008 | Green

Read More: Big Tobacco, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Climate Change, Henry Waxman, Waxman Hearings, Environment, Green News
Kevin Grandia

Waxman is now in a position to haul the energy executives onto to the floor and expose this campaign just like he did with Big Tobacco.

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Obama's Big Congressional Victory

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: John Dingell, Henry Waxman, Waxman Dingell, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Politics News
Jacob Heilbrunn

Rep. Dingell, as the chair of the House energy and commerce committee, was nothing more than a shill for the auto industry, working overtime to suppress any attempts at controlling pollution or raising mileage limits.

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Waxman Defeats Dingall, Blue Dogs Get Spanked

Jane Hamsher | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Blue Dogs, John Dingell, Climate Change, Henry Waxman, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Politics News
Jane Hamsher

This week the Senate voted to remain an exclusive club of self-protection and entitlement by letting Bush enabler Joe Lieberman keep his gavel, but the House has voted for progress.

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Dingell to the Junk Yard: Henry Waxman Deposes John Dingell on House Energy Committee

Pete Cenedella | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Energy, Congressional Democrats, John Dingell, Auto Industry Bailout, Henry Waxman, Obama Agenda, Climate Change, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Detroit Bailout, Politics News
Pete Cenedella

Bye bye MIchigan, hello California: The House Democrats have finally cleared some old spare parts out of the way in anticipation of President Obama's agenda.

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Rep. Dingell, Fuel Efficiency Obstacle, Implores Peers For Votes

Huffington Post, Grist | Dave Burdick | Posted 12.18.2008 | Green

Read More: Automaker Bailout, Environment, Cars, John Dingell, Henry Waxman, Green Cars, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Green News

The battle for chairmanship of the influential House Energy and Commerce Committee has been heated, dividing Democrats in Congress. Rep. Henry Waxman ...

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