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TRANSCRIPT: BIDEN: "And I had a nurse at a — nurses at Walter Reed hospital who would bend down and whisper in my ear, go home and get me pillows. They would make sure — actually, probably nothing ever taught in — you can't do it in Covid time, but they'd actually breathe in my nostrils to make me move, to get me moving."

Rep. Henry Waxman (D., Calif.) blamed the private contractors retained by HHS to build and administer healthcare.gov for the website’s extensive glitches Tuesday on MSNBC. Waxman said Secretary of Health & Human Services Kathleen Sebelius was not aware of all of the “technicalities” pertaining to the Obamacare website and thus should not be held responsible for its failure. “She’s done a terrific job,” Waxman said, “I have a great deal of confidence in her.” The private sector, according to Waxman, failed to live up to their contractual obligations “even with all of the money they got.” The California congressman suggested...

California Rep. Henry Waxman said Thursday the environment and U.S. economy depend on congressional action to confront the threat of climate change. Waxman, chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, spoke as he opened Congress' first hearing on climate legislation. A group of 14 corporate

Hours after Al Gore accepted the Nobel Peace prize for his work raising awareness about climate change, House Democrats accused the man who beat him in 2000 of manipulating government data to downplay the effects and impact of global warming. Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released a report Monday detailing the Bush administration's efforts "to manipulate climate change science and mislead policymakers and the public about the dangers of global warming." In the report, committee Democrats argue that the White House monitored media interviews with federal scientists and edited congressional testimony "that could conflict with administration...

While the bipartisan Senate FISA legislation languished on the desk of House Democratic leadership, Henry Waxman had his sights focused on more important issues than national security. He grilled Roger Clemens on whether he had ever had human growth hormone (HGH) injected into his buttocks. Now even Waxman says his hearings were a colossal waste of time, and blamed Clemens for it (via Michelle Malkin): A day after a dramatic, nationally televised hearing that pitted Roger Clemens against his former personal trainer and Democrats against Republicans, the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform said Thursday that...

Media: A manufactured flap over Rush Limbaugh has stirred talk of new "fairness doctrine" hearings in Congress. That's just what Media Matters, the flacks behind it, were after. Their agenda is worse than it looks. Media Matters, a left-wing nuisance group, recently sought headlines by distorting a Sept. 26 conversation between conservative radio commentator Limbaugh and a listener about a soldier who misrepresented his military record. Media Matters screamed that Limbaugh, whose record of supporting U.S. troops is long and real, was insulting anti-war soldiers as "phony." The claim was as silly as the one Media Matters made a week...

I just heard on Rush's show that Henry Waxman is going to investigate conservative talk radio. I propose a name for his committee:The House American Activities Committee (HAAC)

Waxman set to probe areas of Bush gov't By ERICA WERNER, Associated Press Writer 37 minutes ago The Democratic congressman who will investigate the Bush administration's running of the government says there are so many areas of possible wrongdoing, his biggest problem will be deciding which ones to pursue. There's the response to Hurricane Katrina, government contracting in Iraq and on homeland security, political interference in regulatory decisions by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration, and allegations of war profiteering, Rep. Henry Waxman (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif., told the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. "I'm...

(CNSNews.com) - California Congressman Henry Waxman's scathing report about abstinence-based sex education programs represents "his latest attempt to discredit the important work being done in our nation's schools," according to the spokeswoman for a cultural conservative group. Waxman, one of the most liberal Democrats in the U.S. House, opposes the abstinence education programs that are receiving $170 million in federal funding this year and are now in use in 25 states. Waxman's report, issued Wednesday, alleges that most of the programs give teenagers false or misleading information about abortion, sexually transmitted diseases and the effectiveness of contraceptives. "It is...

Land vertebrates can breathe through their noses thanks to an anatomical rearrangement of fish-style nostrils. That same rearrangement may explain why cleft lips and cleft palates are common birth defects in humans. The nasal passages of land vertebrates differ dramatically from their fish ancestors. In fishes, the nose is independent of the mouth and throat. Water enters the nasal sac through one pair of nostrils and exits through a second pair. By contrast, land vertebrates - technically known as tetrapods, because of their four limbs - have nasal passages that open to the outside world through a pair of external...