Commemorative Series No. 2 · The Drug Money
OUTSPENTNo. 48/54
Wayne
Allard
U.S. Senate · R-CO
Taken from pharma & insurers
$6,200
H.R.1 · Medicare drug-price ban · 2003tap to flip ⤺
WHO THEY WORK FORNo. 48/54
Pharma & Health$6,200
Banned Medicare from negotiating drug prices for 19 years. Once it could (2024), prices fell 38–79%. · 108-1-459OUTSPENT
Card 48 of 54 · tap the card to see who they work for
Beyond the check
The check is only the part you can see.
They took
$6,200
The industry spent on the bill
$116M
on drug-industry lobbying in 2003, about ten lobbyists for every senator
Through the leadership PAC
His leadership PAC took credit-card money (MBNA, American Express, Sallie Mae) during the bankruptcy-bill years, while he sat on the Banking Committee that wrote it.
Source: FEC C00327437
The industry figure is lobbying spent on the bill, not a payment to this senator. Source: Public Citizen (2004); Center for Public Integrity. Everything here is documented public record; nothing alleges an illegal act.
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Pharma & Health$6,200
Johnson & Johnson$4,700
Pfizer$1,500