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In public office since the earliest days of the AIDS crisis, U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) served as chairman of the House Subcommittee on Health and the Environment and became one of the most vocal advocates for increased federal spending on the disease during the budget tug-of-war of the 1980s. More recently, his office has turned its efforts to scrutinizing President Bush's federal funding for abstinence-only-until-marriage sex education programs, releasing a report that sharply criticizes their curricula as false and misleading. Gay.com's Benjamin Ryan talked to the congressman about Presidents Reagan's and George H.W. Bush's response to the outbreak, what we should have done to curb the spread of AIDS, how to curb anti-condom politics, and more.