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Henry Waxman

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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.

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Jul 22, 2013

Climate change is hurting Americans across the country.

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Jul 22, 2013

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

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Jul 22, 2013

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.

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Jul 22, 2013

Our job should be to resist the importuning of special interests and help the FCC make this groundbreaking auction an historic success.

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Jul 22, 2013

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.

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Jul 22, 2013

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.

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Jul 22, 2013

In my view, the success of the auction will be measured by how well we meet the goals laid out by the law.

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Jul 17, 2013

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I welcome all of our witnesses today.

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Jul 17, 2013

Breaches result from a wide variety of causes.

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Jul 17, 2013

It is alarming just how common data breaches have become.

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Jul 17, 2013

Consumers face severe threats to their financial well-being when data like banking information or Social Security numbers are compromised.

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Jul 17, 2013

Having lost in Congress and in court, they are now using the most cynical of tactics: trying to make the law fail.

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Jul 17, 2013

Where does the Constitution say that members of Congress are supposed to sabotage a law that they didn't vote for?

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Jul 17, 2013

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.

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Jul 17, 2013

The Constitution says a law is something that is passed by the Congress and signed by the President.

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Jul 17, 2013

They have never given us a decent replacement. They are not talking about anything constructive.

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Jul 17, 2013

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…

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Jul 17, 2013

This law is going to go fully into effect. Millions of Americans are already benefitting from its protections.

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Jul 17, 2013

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…

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Jul 17, 2013

I don't think that relief means taking health care coverage away from millions of Americans.

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Jul 17, 2013

Nearly all U.S. States and territories now have laws that require notice for their own residents when a data breach occurs.

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Jul 15, 2013

We are not trying to take anything away from the current FDA authority.

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Jul 15, 2013

I don't believe that our bill would have allowed the NECC situation to have occurred.

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Jul 15, 2013

This is not, as you know, a Republican or a Democrat issue. This is just trying to get it right.

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Jul 15, 2013

We are just trying to get this thing worked out and do it right.

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