{"id":374408,"date":"2018-08-22T12:37:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T11:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-limits-of-elizabeth-warren-consortiumnews\/"},"modified":"2018-08-22T12:37:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T11:37:10","slug":"the-limits-of-elizabeth-warren-consortiumnews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-limits-of-elizabeth-warren-consortiumnews\/","title":{"rendered":"The Limits of Elizabeth Warren \u2013 Consortiumnews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Senator Elizabeth Warren was pushed to her limit at the National Press Club, entrapped by a system she says she wants to debate, but clearly can\u2019t, as Sam Husseini explains.<\/p>\n

By Sam Husseini
<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b>Special to Consortium News <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Warren outlined with great specificity a host of proposals for eliminating financial conflicts, closing revolving doors between business and government and reforming corporate structures.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

She pilloried former Congressman Billy Tauzin for doing the pharmaceutical lobby\u2019s bidding by preventing a bill for expanded Medicare coverage to include a program to negotiate lower drug prices. \u201cIn December of 2003, the very same month the bill was signed into law, PhRMA \u2014 the drug companies\u2019 biggest lobbying group \u2014 dangled the possibility that Billy could be their next CEO,\u201d Warren said.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn February of 2004, Congressman Tauzin announced that he wouldn\u2019t seek re-election. Ten months later, he became CEO of PhRMA \u2014 at an annual salary of $2 million,\u201d Warren said. \u201cBig Pharma certainly knows how to say \u2018thank you for your service.’\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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