Henry A Waxman

From his new perch in Washington, Ted Lieu has suffered through an East Coast winter and other confounding indignities of life as a freshman member of the House from the party out of power. No matter, he says; he learned from his predecessor, the 40-year member Henry Waxman, that influence will be marked in years and decades, not the three months Lieu has spent in the capital. For one of Lieu's bases of support, however, a far swifter assertion of power is underway. The Torrance Democrat's victory in November's election was only one sign of the surge in importance of Asian American voters and Asian American politicians. On the same night Lieu won Waxman's seat, John...

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