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Waxman Hearing: Fudging Climate Change Reports

Richard Blair: "Hammerin' Hank" Waxman (D-CA) keeps the hits coming as chairman of the House Oversight committee. The latest: Bush administration changes to global warming reports ...
March 20, 2007  |  
 
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Rep. Henry "Hammerin' Hank" Waxman (D-CA) has been making a lot of news recently. As the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, he's the Democratic Party point man on a variety of corruption issues and investigations. When congress was returned to Democratic Party control this past November, his biggest concern was (paraphrasing) "Where do I start?".

With all of his extraordinary work to date, you can be excused if you missed Waxman's latest investigation hearing: why did the Bush administration change scientific reports on climate change / global warming? The answer isn't particularly surprising...

Richard Blair is a Philadelphia area freelance writer, and the blogmaster of All Spin Zone.

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