Useful site. Good for other links as well. I had only found UK ASH so far.
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>New House Speaker Supports Tobacco [12/24-4]
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>>From Bill Godshall,
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>I found a truly revealing videotape of the
>presumed-to-be next Speaker of the US House of
>Representatives Dennis Hastert (R-IL) berating then FDA
>Commissioner David Kessler, and
>repeatedly accusing Kessler of contempt of Congress
>during a June 21, 1994 hearing when Kessler
>testified about nicotine addiction before the House
>Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.
So that is it.
Why should such a calm, healing type of man get demonstrably angry? While on video?
Presumbably he did not win in his assertion that the FDA Commissioner was showing contempt of Congress. Sounds like a clash of rights, that could only be resolved by a demonstration of force. Perhaps he wanted to create a precedent. Or perhaps he was playing to a gallery - which?
Can anyone find the context? Presumably there is a site where transcriptions of exchanges can be read?
Chris Burford
London.