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(19,429 posts) Thu Jan 30, 2014, 01:24 PM Jan 2014

Henry Waxman to retire

Veteran California Democrat Henry Waxman, whose legislative and political savvy helped remake the American health care system, reveal tobacco’s dangers and expose steroids in baseball, will retire at the end of the 113th Congress.

“I will have completed 40 years in Congress by the end of this year,” Waxman said in an interview with POLITICO in his Capitol Hill office this week. “I think it’s time to let somebody else come in and take on some of these fights.”

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/henry-waxman-retirement-102858.html?hp=t1_3