Notes from Waxman's Office
With some regularity I get these interesting little statements from U.S. Representative Henry Waxman's Government Reform Minority Office. Here are the two most recent ones.
Permanent Estate Tax Repeal Would Save President, Cabinet Millions of Dollars
Monday, July 25, 2005 — Rep. Waxman has released a new fact sheet showing that a permanent estate tax repeal would favor the President, Vice President, and 11 cabinet members, saving them as much as $344 million dollars total.
$1.5 Billion Giveaway Secretly Slipped into Energy Bill
Wednesday, July 27, 2005 — In a letter to Speaker Hastert, Rep. Waxman writes that after the energy legislation was closed to further amendment in the recently concluded conference, a $1.5 billion provision benefiting oil and gas companies, Halliburton, and Sugar Land, Texas, was mysteriously inserted in the text.
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on Wednesday, 3 August 2005 at 00.48
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Writing a letter to Speaker Hastert to complain about skulduggery is an exercise in futility. The only thing that would move him to action, I'm sure, would be if he were to stop getting such letters — a sure sign House Republicans are slacking off.
Although he lacks the southern accent, Hastert reminds me of Boss Hogg, if you recall the old "Dukes of Hazzard" series. Come to think of it, Tom DeLay reminds me of a cross between Roscoe P. Coltrane and Jim Bakker, with a little Freddie Krueger thrown in.