Henry A Waxman

The House overwhelmingly passed legislation yesterday that for the first time would subject the tobacco industry to regulation by federal health authorities charged with promoting public well-being. Its backers call the Family Smoking Prevention and...

Like generations of family before him, Steven Bailey grew up with tobacco. The leafy plants thrive in Virginia's clay soil, and one of his earliest memories is of watching his mother work the fields, surrounded by plants as high as her shoulders. So...

U.S. drug manufacturers are reaping a windfall from taxpayers because Medicare's privately administered prescription drug benefit program pays more than other government programs for the same medicines, a House committee charged in a report Thursday. The...

The John McCain campaign Friday reported its best fundraising month since the Arizona senator became the GOP's presumptive presidential nominee. McCain raised $27 million last month, the fifth consecutive month in which contributions have increased,...

WASHINGTON The State Department's top investigator will examine allegations that the senior U.S. diplomat in Albania, Ambassador John L. Withers II, tried to cover up the illegal source of ammunition a U.S. military contractor shipped to Afghanistan's...

WASHINGTON A House panel threatened yesterday to cite Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey with contempt of Congress unless he produces documents from an FBI interview with Vice President Dick Cheney regarding the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's...

President Bush invoked executive privilege to keep Congress from seeing the FBI report of an interview with Vice President Dick Cheney and other records related to the administration's leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity in 2003. The...

Setting up a constitutional showdown, the White House asserted executive privilege yesterday in denying a request to turn over thousands of pages of documents that Congress seeks as part of an investigation involving California's air-quality standards....

A House committee subpoenaed yesterday records of the FBI's interviews with President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney during the investigation into the leak of a covert CIA officer's name. The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform demanded the...

A congressional committee will investigate health insurers' practice of canceling coverage when policyholders get sick, its chairman said Thursday. The problem first came to light in California, but witnesses testifying before the House Oversight and...

A "striking lack of recollection" by White House and military officials has prevented congressional investigators from determining who was responsible for misinformation spread after the friendly-fire death of Army Ranger Pat Tillman in 2004, a House...

From Rose Mary Woods' tape recordings in the Nixon White House to Karl Rove's e-mails during the Bush administration, congressional investigators and political historians are forever seeking records of White House communications, often against the...