Matthew Blake of The Washington Independent has a nice appreciation of Henry Waxman’s tenure as top Democrat on the House Government Oversight Committee. Waxman was so effective in that role that a young person such as myself thought of him exclusively in those terms and I had no idea of his record as an effective legislator.
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