Let's see, he went after big tobacco: "Waxman, who's in his 16th term representing West Los Angeles <http://search.breitbart.com/q?s=%22West+Los+Angeles%22&sid=breitbart.com>, had plenty of experience leading congressional investigations before the Democrats lost control of the House to Republicans in 1994.
That was the year when, as chairman of an Energy and Commerce subcommittee, he presided over dramatic hearings he convened where the heads of leading tobacco companies testified that they didn't believe nicotine was addictive." About issuing subpoenas: "A lot of people have said to me, `Are you going to now go out and issue a lot of subpoenas and go on a wild payback time?' Well, payback is unworthy," he said. "Doing oversight doesn't mean issuing subpoenas. It means trying to get information." Subpoenas would be used only as a last result, Waxman said, taking a jab at a previous committee chairman, GOP Rep. Dan Burton of Indiana, who led the committee during part of the Clinton administration <http://search.breitbart.com/q?s=%22Clinton+administration%22&sid=breitbart.com>. "He issued a subpoena like most people write a letter," Waxman said. Yeah, a real loose cannon: "Among the issues that should have been investigated but weren't, Waxman contended, were the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, the controversy over the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's name, and the pre-Iraq war use of intelligence. He said Congress must restore accountability and function as an independent branch of government. "It's our obligation not to be repeating with the Republicans have done," Waxman said. He wants to investigate the actions of the executive as the Constitution demands; Oooooooooooooooooh, what a nut....!!!! Michael Madigan wrote: >This guy is a fucking asshole > > http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/11/10/D8LAEECG1.html > > > >--- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- >multipart/alternative > text/plain (text body -- kept) > text/html >--- > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
