Henry Waxman

Lawmakers are pushing to extend the California Film and Television Tax Credit program, which has resulted in billions of dollars of economic activity. Enacted in 2009, the legislation was designed to create jobs, increase production spending and generate...

Republicans in Congress are aggressively attacking the Clean Water Act — a landmark 1970 law created the year after Ohio’s horrifically polluted Cuyahoga River spontaneously burst into flame. Ironically, these attacks — coupled with...

Oil service companies such as Halliburton have maintained that the practice does not affect drinking water, despite anecdotal evidence in places such as Wyoming that show methane and other chemicals in residential wells near fracking activities....

Solyndra: Two Democratic lawmakers want to question Solyndra investors about the solar company's collapse....

Michael and Karen Villalpando have come a long way in the publishing world since mortgaging their home in 1990 to purchase the Park Labrea News. Over the past 21 years, the longtime La Cañada Flintridge residents worked hard to grow the once 3,000-...

Minnesota congresswoman and 'tea party' favorite launches campaign-friendly smartphone application. Are such apps the future of politics?...

Looks like the Net neutrality ball is back in the Federal Communications Commission's court. A draft proposal by Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Beverly Hills) and Rick Boucher (D-Va.) to give the FCC temporary authority to enforce limited neutrality protections...

After the coffee. Before figuring out what it all means. The Skinny: What the election means for media. The Giants may be celebrating but Fox probably isn't chugging the champagne. Tyler Perry gets serious ... again. Meet the new bosses.......

We meet all the usual suspects — the round robin of Robert Rubin, Henry Paulson, Timothy Geithner and their ilk, bouncing from big investment banking firms to positions of power in assorted presidential administrations or high-ranking roles in the...

Here in California, we've grown accustomed to voters from all parts of the country -- some of them more consequential than others -– second-guessing our elections (perhaps because we have so many). This election, in which California somehow missed the.....

The Federal Communications Commission isn't releasing details of Chairman Julius Genachowski's latest proposal for Net neutrality rules, but staffers provided a couple of revealing clues Wednesday. First, the proposal doesn't back away from any of the six...

Earlier this week Smithsonian Secretary G. Wayne Clough ordered the removal of a short video-excerpt from a critically acclaimed exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Bowing to a classic case of “manufactured outrage� from...