Longtime House Member Henry Waxman To Retire
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Democratic Representative Henry Waxman of California, a longtime Energy and Commerce Committee leader and liberal proponent of health and safety laws, says he will retire at year’s end.
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