Here's Tauzin in 2003 lecturing at a conference entitled 'Fight Against Waste, Fraud, Abuse in Federal Government (I not making this up)
I like to remind people of how the Republicans ripped off the country for the tune of $1.2 trillion (and growing) when they passed their 'Let's Give the Drug Companies a Few Hundred Billion of Taxpayer's Money Prescription Drug Plan' that they rammed through Congress in the middle of the night back in 2003.
As I pointed out the other day, it was backed by almost 100% of the Republicans and opposed by almost 100% of the Democrats, and Billy Tauzin, an obnoxious cracker from Louisiana and who was one of the co-sponsors, made out like a bandit.
Tauzin resigned from Congress less than a year later to take a $2 million a year job as president and chief executive officer of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), which is essentially the lobbying arm of the pharmaceutical industry.
Yeah, good ol' Billy... Americans, you will be paying for his and Republicans' shameless gift to the pharmaceutical industry for the rest of your lives.... Suckers!
"It's a sad commentary on politics in Washington that a member of Congress who pushed through a major piece of legislation benefiting the drug industry gets the job leading that industry," said Public Citizen President Joan Claybrook.
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Billy Tauzin, Shameless Former Republican
Here's Tauzin in 2003 lecturing at a conference entitled 'Fight Against Waste, Fraud, Abuse in Federal Government (I not making this up)
I like to remind people of how the Republicans ripped off the country for the tune of $1.2 trillion (and growing) when they passed their 'Let's Give the Drug Companies a Few Hundred Billion of Taxpayer's Money Prescription Drug Plan' that they rammed through Congress in the middle of the night back in 2003.
As I pointed out the other day, it was backed by almost 100% of the Republicans and opposed by almost 100% of the Democrats, and Billy Tauzin, an obnoxious cracker from Louisiana and who was one of the co-sponsors, made out like a bandit.
Tauzin resigned from Congress less than a year later to take a $2 million a year job as president and chief executive officer of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), which is essentially the lobbying arm of the pharmaceutical industry.
Yeah, good ol' Billy... Americans, you will be paying for his and Republicans' shameless gift to the pharmaceutical industry for the rest of your lives.... Suckers!
"It's a sad commentary on politics in Washington that a member of Congress who pushed through a major piece of legislation benefiting the drug industry gets the job leading that industry," said Public Citizen President Joan Claybrook.
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