Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) — U.S. Representative Henry Waxman, a California Democrat who helped craft and pass President Barack Obama's 2010 health-care law, has decided not to seek a 21st term this year, he said in a statement today.
As chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee in 2009 and 2010, Waxman worked with then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, also a California Democrat, to steer Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act through the chamber.
"In all my years in politics, I felt the moral claim that this country has failed in not providing every American access to health care," Waxman said in March 2010, the month Obama signed the legislation into law.
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