Saddam Hussein has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do.

Waxman's stated legislative priorities are health and environmental issues. Waxman maintains that the 1985 bill was sponsored in the interest of public safety and not as some allege to hinder access of the working classes in South and East Los Angeles to his affluent district.

He is considered to be one of the most influential liberal members of Congress. Henry Arnold Waxman (born September 12 1939) is the U.