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Congressman Henry Waxman, Chair, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee (D-CA, 30th C.D.)

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Congressman Henry Waxman is the Chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Representative Waxman is a long-time health policy advocate and a leading figure in the effort to expose the health threats from tobacco. Fourteen years ago tomorrow, on April 14, 1994, he chaired a hearing of the House Energy & Committee Subcommittee on Health and the Environment at which top tobacco company executives publicly lied under oath about the harmful effects of their tobacco products. A photograph of these men taking the oath under which they lied can be seen in an award from Public Citizen that now adorns the waiting room of Representative Waxman’s Los Angeles district office.

Chairman Waxman was interviewed yesterday afternoon in that Los Angeles district office by Etopia News publisher Marc Strassman. During that interview, the Congressman said he believed that these executives should have been indicted for perjury for their lying to the subcommittee he chaired in 1994, but that the Department of Justice, saying it wouldn’t have been able to convict them on those charges, declined to prosecute.

Mr. Waxman also said he now favors giving the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the authority to regulate tobacco, which that agency now says it doesn’t want.

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