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On the recordMay 2, 2011
the hearing is being held, it seems to me, more to give Members on the Republican side of the aisle an opportunity to say, 'They didn't come, they wouldn't come.'
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Henry Waxman
Democratic · California

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Waxman criticizes the timing of the hearing as politically motivated.

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