Washington ? Michael Schiavo, who fought for years to remove his wife, Terri, from a feeding tube that kept her alive, has turned his anger over Congress’ intervention into political action.

Schiavo announced Wednesday he has opened TerriPAC to strike back at politicians who tried to keep his brain-damaged wife alive through congressional legislation he termed a “sickening exercise in raw political power.”

Throughout the years, Schiavo maintained that his wife would not have wanted to be kept alive artificially after being robbed of her brain function. Her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, had sought to keep the feeding tube intact and had rallied anti-abortion forces to their side.

The case became a media spectacle, and then a congressional slugfest, when GOP leaders brought lawmakers back from Easter recess for an emergency vote on behalf of the Schindlers.

“It is not so simple to forget those politicians who shamelessly sought to squeeze political leverage out of my family’s most emotional hour,” said Schiavo, a Florida nurse who pointed out that he was a Republican before the congressional action.