Rep. Henry Waxman’s Opinion Pieces and Letters to the Editor
Oct 10, 2014 Issues: District Concerns
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Chronological Op-Ed Archive
Date | Title | Publication | Link |
9/16/1976 | Arms Sales: Our Heads Are in the Sand | Los Angeles Times | LINK |
2/23/1978 | Making a Mess of the Middle East Stew | Los Angeles Times | LINK |
7/16/1978 | Trading Off on Human Rights | Los Angeles Times | LINK |
3/22/1979 | Risks in the Middle East Peace | Los Angeles Times | LINK |
6/28/1981 | Clean Air Act: Just Another Trinket for Reagan to Dust Off? | Los Angeles Times | LINK |
9/29/1981 | The AWACS Debate Turns Ugly | Los Angeles Times | LINK |
5/1/1982 | Schweiker Is Wrong | The Washington Post | LINK |
8/5/1982 | The Real Marlboro Country | The Washington Post | LINK |
3/9/1983 | A Battle for Control of TV | Los Angeles Times | LINK |
4/4/1983 | New disease may be serious health threat | USA Today | LINK |
9/6/1983 | Even the West Must Pay to End Acid Rain | Los Angeles Times | LINK |
12/8/1983 | Acid Rain: A Solution to the Crisis | The Baltimore Sun | LINK |
3/14/1984 | One way to control acid rain | Chicago Tribune | LINK |
10/28/1984 | The Battle over Acid-Rain Legislation: Why Do We Ignore the Evidence? | The New York Times | LINK |
3/1/1985 | Acid Rain: We know the costs. We need the cure. | National Parks | LINK |
10/1/1985 | Toxic Chemicals in our Air supply: The Need for Action to Protect the Public Health | Journal of the Air Pollution Control Association | LINK |
10/4/1985 | Fighting an Epidemic in the Absence of Leadership | The Washington Post | LINK |
2/19/1986 | Metro Rail is Dead - but L.A. Can Have Safe, Sensible Rapid Transit | Los Angeles Times | LINK |
5/4/1986 | Rehabilitation for Medicare | Los Angeles Times | LINK |
5/5/1986 | Encouraging Mideast Cooperation through Scientific Research | Los Angeles Herald Examiner | LINK |
9/14/1986 | Israel Can't Yield to Frustration, Cynicism | Los Angeles Times | LINK |
10/9/1986 | When a Vaccine Injures a Child | The Washington Post | LINK |
2/6/1987 | Regional Cooperation: A Look to the Future | Congressional Record | LINK |
2/10/1987 | For Confidentiality in AIDS Testing | The New York Times | LINK |
6/1/1987 | Why Metro Rail is still unsafe | Los Angeles Herald Examiner | LINK |
9/27/1987 | AIDS, Rights and the Federal Role | The New York Times | LINK |
11/20/1987 | A Realistic Deadline for Clean Air | Not Listed | LINK |
8/22/1988 | States Will Have to Contribute to Assure Shortfall Can Be Overcome | Los Angeles Times | LINK |
11/1/1988 | Liberalism Meants Try, Try Again | Los Angeles Times | LINK |
5/17/1989 | Arabs and Israelis Working Together to Make Desert Bloom | Los Angeles Herald Examiner | LINK |
6/30/1989 | Op-Ed piece on Mandated Health Benefits | Pre-Publication | LINK |
7/14/1989 | Look at Cars - Not Behind Trees - If We Want Cleaner Air | Not Listed | LINK |
8/15/1989 | Clean-Air Bill Doesn't Go Far Enough | The Wall Street Journal | LINK |
9/1/1989 | Refueling the Clean Air Act | Not Listed | LINK |
10/1/1989 | Voodoo Environmentalism' | ROLL CALL | LINK |
10/20/1989 | Mockery of Blasnost | The Washington Times | LINK |
11/24/1989 | The issue is pollution, not jurisdictional disputes | Sacramento Bee | LINK |
11/30/1989 | Lent Ambushed the Clean-Fuel Proposal | Not Listed | LINK |
12/10/1989 | A Catastrophic Attempt to Do Better | Los Angeles Times | LINK |
6/26/1990 | Tobacco Exports: Why the Silence? | The Washington Post | LINK |
10/2/1990 | Frenzy of Cuts in Medicare Plugs Deficit | Los Angeles Times | LINK |
2/18/1991 | Global Warming is for Real | ROLL CALL | LINK |
3/22/1991 | State Tries to Bar Door to Nursing Home Reforms | Not Listed | LINK |
5/21/1991 | Research That Could Save Lives | The Washington Post | LINK |
7/30/1991 | Lead poisoning a threat to the health of our kids | USA Today | LINK |
9/1/1991 | New lead rule won't protect children | U.S. Water News | LINK |
9/12/1991 | Give the FDA Expanded Powers | ROLL CALL | LINK |
11/10/1991 | Can Magic Lead Where Two Presidents Wouldnt? | Los Angeles Times | LINK |
12/11/1991 | Tobacco Marketing Profiteering from Children | The Journal of the American Medical Associaiton | LINK |
12/14/1991 | Help' Medicaid Doesn't Need | The Washington Post | LINK |
12/23/1991 | Quayle Group Meddles With Our Safeguards | Los Angeles Times | LINK |
4/10/1992 | Carpe Diem, Congress; the President Won't | Los Angeles Times | LINK |
4/26/1992 | President undermining goals of Clean Air Act | Connecticut Day | LINK |
4/29/1992 | The Environmental Pollution President | Los Angeles Times | LINK |
6/15/1992 | When a law isn't a law | Not Listed | LINK |
6/16/1993 | Letter to the Editor - NYT regarding "Mother Nature's Pesticide Factory" | Pre-Publication | LINK |
12/3/1993 | Letter to the Editor - NYT regarding "Unbending Regulations Incite Move to Alter Pollution Law" (1/2) | Pre-Publication | LINK |
1/3/1994 | Letter to the Editor - NYT regarding "Unbending Regulations Incite Move to Alter Pollution Law" (2/2) | Pre-Publication | LINK |
1/19/1994 | The Next Water Crisis | The Washington Post | LINK |
4/11/1994 | Stop the Drugging of Our Children | Los Angeles Times | LINK |
4/21/1994 | Letter to the Editor - WaPo regarding Getting an Unfair Hearing | Pre-Publication | LINK |
5/23/1994 | End Tobacco's 'Most favored Industry' Status on the Hill | ROLL CALL | LINK |
6/9/1994 | Letter to the Editor - WSJ regarding "Meet the New baronds, A Lot Like the Old" | Pre-Publication | LINK |
6/10/1994 | Letter to the Editor - NYT regarding The Danger Stage | Pre-Publication | LINK |
6/8/1995 | Medicaid Op-Ed | Pre-Publication | LINK |
9/24/1995 | GOP Moves Toward an Imperial Congress | Los Angeles Times | LINK |
2/28/1997 | Campaign Reform Made Whole | The New York Times | LINK |
3/5/1997 | False Alarms on Clean Air | The Washington Post | LINK |
3/7/1997 | Don't Overturn an environmental success | San Jose Mercury News | LINK |
3/17/1997 | FDA Successes Shouldn't Be Shortchanged | ROLL CALL | LINK |
4/21/1997 | Don't Hand Victory to Tobacco Companies | Los Angeles Times | LINK |
4/21/1997 | Don´t Believe Industry Hit on EPA´s Clean Air Standards | ROLL CALL | LINK |
6/29/1997 | Don't Sign it | The Washington Post | LINK |
10/3/1999 | Burbank Air Port Expansion | Los Angeles Times | LINK |
4/17/2000 | Bad Information Can Be Deadly | Los Angeles Times | LINK |
5/11/2000 | Outrageous Prescription Drug Prives for Seniors | Beverly Hills Weekly | LINK |
8/9/2000 | In the Democratic Spirit, Let Workers Decide How to Unionize | Los Angeles Times | LINK |
11/1/2000 | Add Criminal Penalties to Product Liability Laws | Chamber of Commerce | LINK |
3/24/2001 | A Jackpot For the Cabinet | The Washington Post | LINK |
7/23/2001 | Upgrade the technology | South Florida Sun-Sentinel | LINK |
8/13/2001 | Did NBC Make Call With Welch in the Backfield | Los Angeles Times | LINK |
9/7/2001 | Israel Under Siege | The Jewish Journal | LINK |
1/18/2002 | US congressman: 'Assad won't accept a Jewish state' | The Jerusalem Post | LINK |
1/24/2002 | All Enron Cards on the Table | The Washington Post | LINK |
3/21/2002 | The Future of the Global Tobacco Treaty Negotiations | The New England Journal of Medicine | LINK |
4/2/2002 | Arafat's Choice | The Jewish Journal | LINK |
7/22/2002 | Divestment would punish wrong side | Daily Bruin | LINK |
8/1/2002 | Government Vs. Business | Beverly Hills Weekly | LINK |
9/30/2002 | The Danger of Promoting As Yet Unproven Drugs | The Wall Street Journal | LINK |
11/25/2002 | Compensating a Must for Vaccing Injuries | The Wall Street Journal | LINK |
7/17/2003 | Breakdown Between the White House and Our Intelligence Experts | Beverly Hills Weekly | LINK |
8/19/2003 | The Bush Adminisration Owes the Public a Complete Accounting about Its Use of Intelligence on Iraq | FindLaw's Legal Commentary | LINK |
3/28/2007 | Why I'm Backing the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobaco Control Act | The Hill | LINK |
9/9/2014 | Letters to the Editor - Aermenian Article Concerns | Pre-Publication | LINK |
4/15/2015 | The Social Security Fix: Pay Back Funds | The Jewish Journal | LINK |
Fall 1990 | Religion in the Workplace with a twist | Not Listed | LINK |
Not Listed | A History of Adverse Drug Experiences: Congress Had Ample Evidence to Support Restrictions on the Promotion of Prescription Drugs | Food and Drug Law Journal | LINK |
Not Listed | America Finds AIDS Again | Pre-Publication | LINK |
Not Listed | Don't Condemn L.A. To a Life Of Dirty Air | Not Listed | LINK |
Not Listed | Environmental Hazards Next Door | Pre-Publication | LINK |
Not Listed | Letter to the Editorial Board - Tobacco | Pre-Publication | LINK |
Not Listed | Like Vietnam, AIDS will Change America | Not Listed | LINK |
Not Listed | Op-Ed - tobacco settlement | Pre-Publication | LINK |
Not Listed | Op-Ed on Prescription Drugs | Pre-Publication | LINK |
Not Listed | Preparing for the Smallpos Vaccine | Pre-Publication | LINK |
Not Listed | Regulatory Reform Op-Ed | Pre-Publication | LINK |
Not Listed | Rehash in the House | Not Listed | LINK |
Not Listed | Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D) | Not Listed | LINK |
Not Listed | Right-to-Know Op-Ed | Pre-Publication | LINK |
Not Listed | The Congressional Minyan | Not Listed | LINK |
Not Listed | Those Other Missing Children | Pre-Publication | LINK |
Not Listed | Tobacco & FDA Op-Ed | Pre-Publication | LINK |
Not Listed | Why I Am A Democrat | Not Listed | LINK |
Not Listed | Why Kerry: Bush Policies Endanger Israel | The Jewish Journal | LINK |