Showing posts with label billy tauzin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label billy tauzin. Show all posts
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Rope sale on the Schip of Fools
With a liberal supermajority in Washington increasingly possible, business is trying to buy up protection, in the hope that Democrats will go easier on them. Henry Waxman is no doubt grateful for this offer of the rope with which he will hang them.
Most notable is the drug industry's $13.2 million ad buy to prop up 28 Congressional candidates, many of them vulnerable and all but three of them Democrats. Funded by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the industry trade group, the spots salute politicians who supported last fall's unsuccessful $60 billion expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (Schip). Democrats failed to override President Bush's vetoes, but they'll prevail on their next try -- then continue on their march to national health care.
More at WSJ
Most notable is the drug industry's $13.2 million ad buy to prop up 28 Congressional candidates, many of them vulnerable and all but three of them Democrats. Funded by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the industry trade group, the spots salute politicians who supported last fall's unsuccessful $60 billion expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (Schip). Democrats failed to override President Bush's vetoes, but they'll prevail on their next try -- then continue on their march to national health care.
More at WSJ
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Billy barks
“It’s an accumulation of things some companies did over the years, now it’s death by a thousand cuts.” He told drugmakers, “We gotta stop the bleeding.”
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