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More than two-thirds of Congress cashed a pharma campaign check in 2020
STAT news ^
| 6/9/21
| Lev Facher
Posted on 12/09/2021 9:14:47 AM PST by JonPreston
Seventy-two senators and 302 members of the House of Representatives cashed a check from the pharmaceutical industry ahead of the 2020 election
The analysis includes contributions made directly to candidates’ election committees as well as to PACs affiliated with individual candidates. For example, data visualizations include pharmaceutical contributions to the campaign committee of Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) and to the Believe in America PAC, a separate, Romney-affiliated campaign group. Contributions to both organizations are attributed to Romney.
Several top Republicans, like Sen. Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and Rep. Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) — the GOP leaders of the Senate and House, respectively — also ranked in the top 15 of all recipients.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bigpharma; capture; congress; pharma
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To: JonPreston
Big Pharma is also major advertiser on most news shows
To: JonPreston
Back stabbing greedy dirtbags. None of them work for the people any more.
I despise them.
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posted on
12/09/2021 9:17:09 AM PST
by
dforest
(Freaking insane world. )
To: circlecity
Yes. Fox has pharma ads all day long. I suppose the others do as well.
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posted on
12/09/2021 9:17:26 AM PST
by
JonPreston
(Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
To: circlecity
Yep. The MSM will not allow criticism of Pharma and its numerous crimes and frauds. The legislators give them anything they want. All for money.
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posted on
12/09/2021 9:18:31 AM PST
by
Seruzawa
("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
To: JonPreston
Mike Judge was a visionary with Idiocracy
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posted on
12/09/2021 9:18:45 AM PST
by
rarestia
(“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” -Hamilton)
To: dforest
Congress is a conclave of thieves and s’bags. All but a few have our nation’s best interest in mind.
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posted on
12/09/2021 9:18:50 AM PST
by
JonPreston
(Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
To: JonPreston
Now THAT is getting closer to the root of our problem!!!!!
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posted on
12/09/2021 9:19:12 AM PST
by
RatRipper
(The Biden Adm is leading an attack against US citizens . . . pure evil.)
To: JonPreston
One can argue that we are fighting the wrong enemy in the war on drugs.
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posted on
12/09/2021 9:20:09 AM PST
by
FMBass
(USN DE-1074 NNTaleb fan )
To: rarestia
Idiocracy I hear they moved Idiocracy into the non-fiction section.
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posted on
12/09/2021 9:20:36 AM PST
by
JonPreston
(Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
To: JonPreston
Congress. Who needs em. Only the lobbyists.
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posted on
12/09/2021 9:21:10 AM PST
by
HighSierra5
(The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
To: FMBass
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posted on
12/09/2021 9:22:09 AM PST
by
JonPreston
(Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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posted on
12/09/2021 9:24:08 AM PST
by
proust
(All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
To: JonPreston
This is the carrot. Gee, I wonder what the stick was....?
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posted on
12/09/2021 10:15:29 AM PST
by
Scarlett156
(I have a new broom. I feel like a queen! Get outta my way, losers! *sweeps* )
To: JonPreston
The truth about the Republican politicians should remind us why Donald J. Trump needs to remain at the reins of the Republican Party to keep the corporate lapdog RINO’s in check.
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posted on
12/09/2021 10:25:23 AM PST
by
Nextrush
(FREEDOM IS EVERYBODYS BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
To: JonPreston
Wow! Tim Scott (SC) scored a whoppin’ $121,000. No wonder he keeps his mouth shut. Dirt bag.
To: JonPreston
Lemme see. Trump said he was going to hold big pharma accountable for exorbitant drugs prices. Big pharma buys Congress prior to the election. Congress ignores mass violations of federal election laws which stole the presidency from patriots.
Hmmm. Any connection here?
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posted on
12/09/2021 10:38:40 AM PST
by
LouAvul
(Farewell America. We barely knew you. )
To: JonPreston
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posted on
12/09/2021 11:29:54 AM PST
by
Pollard
(PureBlood -- youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
To: JonPreston
I bet if NovaVax gave more $$$ to these fartknockers it'd be a done deal, ya I said it, these SOB's are all thick as theifs!
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posted on
12/09/2021 11:30:03 AM PST
by
taildragger
("Do you hear the people Singing? Singing the Songs of Angry Men!")
To: circlecity
Big Pharma owns a lot of politicians, mostly at the federal level but also a considerable number at the state level.
I mute and look away during those multiple drug ads which are on TV news shows. The people shown have little relevance to the drug advertised and the listing of all the possible side effects is gross.
Shouldn’t the Dr. who Rx the drug or the dispensing pharmacist tell you, instead of the TV?
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posted on
12/09/2021 12:08:42 PM PST
by
RicocheT
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