Henry Waxman
The Public Record
Henry Waxman is a former U.S. Representative from California, serving from 1975 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, he was known for his work on health care, environmental policy, and consumer protection. During his tenure, Waxman played a key role in the passage of the Affordable Care Act and was a prominent advocate for climate change legislation. He chaired the House Energy and Commerce Committee, where he focused on issues such as tobacco regulation and health care reform.
These goals include using auction revenue to fund multiple priorities, such as the creation of a nationwide public safety broadband and network known as FirstNet.
Our job should be to resist the importuning of special interests and help the FCC make this groundbreaking auction an historic success.
The Justice Department wrote the FCC earlier this year to emphasize how important it is for competition and consumers that this low band spectrum not be dominated by the two big carriers.
It makes no sense to allow the two biggest companies with an already dominant market position to acquire all of this high quality beachfront spectrum.
In my view, the success of the auction will be measured by how well we meet the goals laid out by the law.
Consumers face severe threats to their financial well-being when data like banking information or Social Security numbers are compromised.
Having lost in Congress and in court, they are now using the most cynical of tactics: trying to make the law fail.
Where does the Constitution say that members of Congress are supposed to sabotage a law that they didn't vote for?
Something has gone fundamentally wrong when a political party tries to deny health insurance to millions of American families just to advance its narrow partisan interest.
The Constitution says a law is something that is passed by the Congress and signed by the President.
They have never given us a decent replacement. They are not talking about anything constructive.
The goal of this hearing is not to improve the law; the goal is to sabotage the law, regardless of the damage inflicted on the health care system or the millions of American people who, for the first time, will be able to receive…
This law is going to go fully into effect. Millions of Americans are already benefitting from its protections.
The Affordable Care Act is the law of the land. The Republicans never liked it. They didn't want to support it, and they did everything they could to try to stop it. They thought the courts would throw it out; the U.S. Supreme Court upheld…
I don't think that relief means taking health care coverage away from millions of Americans.
Nearly all U.S. States and territories now have laws that require notice for their own residents when a data breach occurs.
I don't believe that our bill would have allowed the NECC situation to have occurred.
This is not, as you know, a Republican or a Democrat issue. This is just trying to get it right.





