Key healthcare, drug laws architect Waxman to depart Congress
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
After 40 years in Congress, Representative Henry Waxman (Democrat-California), the architect of several key laws affecting the FDA and the US healthcare system, is calling it quits on Capitol Hill at the end of this year – declaring on 30 January he's "embarrassed that the greatest legislative body in the world too often operates in a partisan intellectual vacuum, denying science, refusing to listen to experts, and ignoring facts."