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• For Chrissake, If You Really Care About America, Tell Harry Reid “No”

  
  Corrente — Authority: 631
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• Did White House Pressure FDA To Help Kill Measure To Make Drugs Cheaper?

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 773
  After the Food and Drug Administration fired off a letter that helped kill a measure fiercely opposed by the drug industry, one Democratic senator is accusing the Obama White House of using the FDA -- which is supposed to offer apolitical opinions -- as a bludgeon. The drug importation amendment to the health reform ...
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• Will the White House-Pharma Deal Survive?

  
  The New Republic - the treatment Feed — Authority: 138
  Democrats managed to avoid a big blow-up with Pharma this week when the Senate struck down Byron Dorgan’s drug reimportation amendment on Tuesday. But by promising to close the Medicare Part D doughnut hole in the final bill, the Democratic leadership has effectively deferred, not avoided, a possible showdown with ...
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• Drug Importation, Senate Votes And Money

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 528
  The recent Senate squabbling over whether cheaper imports from Canada and elsewhere should be allowed into the US was full of intrigue. Why, for instance, did President Barack Obama flip-flop on his oft-stated campaign remarks that imports should be allowed? Was it the $80 million deal that PhRMA cut on discounts that ...
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• Strassel on the Democrat Political Suicide Pact

  
  The Lonely Conservative — Authority: 538
  Kimberly Strassel’s Wall Street Journal piece today is a must read.  Barack Obama emerged from his meeting with Senate Democrats this week to claim Congress was on the “precipice” of something historic. Believe him. The president is demanding his party unilaterally enact one of the most unpopular and complex ...
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• Odds and ends for 12/17

  
  Blog on the Run: Reloaded — Authority: 479
  All your drones are belong to us: A readily available, $26 piece of software has allowed Iraqi insurgents to intercept video from U.S. Predator drones . The government has known about this flaw since the weapons’ use in the Balkans in the 1990s but never did anything about it because it “assumed local ...
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• Dorgan Exploring Mystery of Who Killed His Reimportation Legislation

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 712
  Byron Dorgan (D-ND) Sen. Byron Dorgan is unhappy that his amendment to the Senate health care bill on reimportation, which at one point appeared to have the votes for passage, failed after a late intervention from the Democratic leadership to preserve a deal with the drug industry. But Dorgan goes much further ...
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• Bring Back That Wall! Why We Need Stricter Investment Banking Regulations Now More Than Ever

  
  The Indypendent — Authority: 475
  The Obama administration is talking tough but acting tame with respect to Wall Street. But a pair of senators is coming out swinging. Today, Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and John McCain (R-AZ) are taking a step towards proactive reconstruction of the banking sector by introducing the Banking Integrity Act of ...
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• Denying Americans cheaper prescription drugs (Video)

  
  This Week With Barack Obama — Authority: 138
  This is the result of the Obama White House sweetheart deal. John Kerry and Chris Dodd voted AGAINST this amendment to keep on course to protect Obamas sweetheart deal with the pharmaceutical companies.From The Ed Show:Home Page
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• Dorgan Amendment Slashed After Last-Minute PhRMA Deal PhRMA Hasn’t Agreed To

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 712
  photo: Destinys Agent via Flickr Ryan Grim has a good tick-tock on the failure of the Dorgan amendment last night, delivering a huge victory for the pharmaceutical industry and a blow to consumers who could have saved over $100 billion in prescription drug costs. Thirty Democrats and Joe Lieberman ended up voting ...
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• The Hypocrisy of the Dems’ Opposition to Drug Reimportation

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 153
  As we noted , the White House and Senate Democratic leaders yesterday killed legislation that would have significantly lowered prescription drug prices for consumers and the government alike — a proposal that President Obama had endorsed on the campaign trail and many of yesterday’s opposing Democrats had ...
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• Senate Rejects Plan To Reimport Drugs

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 528
  The vote on the amendment was 51-48 in favor, but 60 votes were needed to prevail under a special rule, the Associated Press reports. President Obama supported the measure as a senator, but his administration echoed safety concerns raised by the pharmaceutical industry, which is supporting the Democrats’ health ...
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• Amidst the Lieberman Drama, Some Wrangling Over Drug Prices

  
  Swampland — Authority: 719
  Tonight the Senate began voting on amendments to the health care bill for the first time in days. Near the top of the agenda: an amendment from Democratic Sen. Byron Dorgan that would have allowed U.S. pharmacies and drug wholesalers to "reimport" drugs from foreign countries. It was was voted down 51-48. (Amendments ...
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• Senate Rejects Low-Cost Drug Imports (Congress not serious about saving money just spending)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  The Senate has narrowly rejected a plan to allow Americans to import low-cost prescription drugs from Canada and other countries. The amendment by North Dakota Democrat Byron Dorgan failed on a 51-48 vote. Sixty votes were needed to prevail. Original Article: Forum: News/Activism
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• Senate Dems Protect Big Pharma

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 153
  In a big win for the pharmaceutical industry, the Senate on Tuesday killed legislation that would have made it easier for Americans to buy their prescription drugs from abroad, where prices are generally much cheaper. The count was 51 to 48 , nine shy of the supporters needed to overcome a filibuster. Thirty ...
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• President Obama Lies About Health Care Reform Cost Control

  
  BeltwayBlips - Top Political News, Videos, and Blogs — Authority: 556
  (White House photo by Pete Souza) After exiting a meeting with the Senate Democratic caucus, President Obama approached the microphone and proceeded to tell a bald-faced lie about health care reform: You talk to every health care economist out there, they will tell you that what ever ... Firedoglake found this 8 ...
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• Where We’re at on the Lieberman Health Care Industry Profit Protection Act of 2009

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 712
  Thanks, Senator Lieberman. Thanks a bunch. (photo: AlmazUK via Flickr) After last night’s epic cave-in on the Lieberman health care bill, I thought I’d just give a big-picture view of where we’re at right now: • As has been reported everywhere, Lieberman basically got everything he wanted with staggering ...
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• Hell Freezes Over (Or At Least Gets Cooler)

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 749
  By Sallie James Well here’s an interesting, if three-weeks-old, story. Apparently the North Dakota Farm Bureau’s annual convention recently passed a policy calling for the elimination of all agricultural programs.  Reading between the lines of the original press release indicates that the call was part of ...
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• Bad Medicine

  
  In The Pink — Authority: 129
  Seriously? They have yet to pass a health care reform bill? Because last time I checked, my insurance still sucked. There’s a proposal in the Senate to allow pharmacies to import lower-cost drugs. Sounds simple enough. Guess who doesn’t like this idea? The drug industry. Guess who else doesn’t like this idea? ...
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• White House working to crush drug importation amendment

  
  Corrente — Authority: 631
  Huffington Post : The White House, aided by Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), is working hard to crush an amendment being pushed by Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) to allow for the reimportation of pharmaceutical drugs from Canada, Senate sources tell the Huffington Post. As a result, the Senate health care debate has come to a ...
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