Industry Lobbyists Worry as Sanders Takes Over Powerful Senate Health Panel

  • 📰 truthout
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 38 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 18%
  • Publisher: 68%

France Nouvelles Nouvelles

France Dernières Nouvelles,France Actualités

Healthcare industry lobbyists are fretting that they may see their sway diminish after Sen. Bernie Sanders has taken over the Senate’s top health panel in the new Congress.

Sen. Bernie Sanders talks to reporters before meeting with U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh during a closed-door policy luncheon with Senate Democrats at the U.S. Capitol on December 1, 2022, in Washington, D.C.Healthcare industry lobbyists who are used to exerting significant influence over legislation and committee activity in Washington, D.C. are fretting that they may see their sway diminish after Sen.

“Sanders’ well-chronicled antagonism toward lobbyists has some concerned they’ll be unable to blunt criticism of their clients’ profits or corporate executive salaries,” the outlet continued. “They are anxious Sanders might seek to revive policies like importing drugs from Canada and other nations, an idea loathed by drugmakers.”

Michaeleen Crowell, a lobbyist with the firm S-3 Group who previously worked as Sanders’ chief of staff, said it “will not be business as usual for K Street” with the Vermont Independent at the helm of the powerful Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. One lobbyist said healthcare industry influence-peddlers are particularly concerned about how Sanders — a longtime champion of

Nous avons résumé cette actualité afin que vous puissiez la lire rapidement. Si l'actualité vous intéresse, vous pouvez lire le texte intégral ici. Lire la suite:

 /  🏆 69. in FR
 

Merci pour votre commentaire. Votre commentaire sera publié après examen.

LadyReverbs Good. Take off the gloves SenSanders ! Er, mittens.

Quick, everyone! Get out your SMALLEST violins and play a sad song for the lobbyists! :D

Those lobbyists might want to learn to code.

As they should! Parasites!

France Dernières Nouvelles, France Actualités

Similar News:Vous pouvez également lire des articles d'actualité similaires à celui-ci que nous avons collectés auprès d'autres sources d'information.

Industry Lobbyists Fret as Sanders Prepares to Take Over Powerful Senate Health PanelHealthcare industry lobbyists who are used to exerting significant influence over legislation and committee activity in Washington, D.C. are fretting that they may see their sway diminish after Sen. Bernie Sanders takes over the Senate's top health panel.
La source: commondreams - 🏆 530. / 51 Lire la suite »

Industry Lobbyists Fret as Sanders Prepares to Take Over Powerful Senate Health Panel'Lol good,' responded Public Citizen's Rick Claypool, mocking the corporate lobbyists' complaints.
La source: commondreams - 🏆 530. / 51 Lire la suite »

Here's how the most important dispute hanging over crypto industry may play out, says industry watcherThe upheaval in the crypto world is showing no signs of petering out in the new year. Cameron Winklevoss, the co-founder of Gemini Trust, accused Barry Silbert’s Digital Currency Group of bad-faith tactics in a dispute over $900 million of frozen funds.
La source: MarketWatch - 🏆 3. / 97 Lire la suite »