Business Booster: Tom DeLay is U.S. companies' friend in Congress

[deminks]

http://www.greenwichtime.com/business/scn-sa-sundaybusinessjul10,0,2572443.story?coll=green-business-headlines

It's not hard to put a dollar figure on House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's importance to corporate America. For drugmakers, his support is worth $13 billion; for petrochemical companies, it could be as much as $375 billion.

DeLay, R-Texas, led the fight to protect Valero Energy Corp. and other companies from pollution lawsuits. For Greenwich-based UST Inc., he helped block Food and Drug Administration regulation of tobacco.

For Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., DeLay employed his parliamentary prowess to win passage of a 2003 Medicare overhaul bill that prevents the government from negotiating with drugmakers for lower prices.

Business coalitions have won as well, as DeLay has consistently backed free-trade pacts supported by groups such as the Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable, a group of chief executives from 160 companies including Boeing Co. and Pfizer Inc.

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There is so much more at the link. I would be embarrassed to be whored to this extent. The Bugman doesn't care or doesn't know. He has no scruples, like many of the clients he services. :blush:
If I were one of his constituents, I would be asking what he had done for me lately.

[TahitiNut]

1. Republicans are Soft On (Corporate) Crime.

It's a characteristic of Fascism.

[TankLV]

2. That's corporate REPUKE america.

Every singly one of them are repukes and friends of Delay or bunkerboy.

NONE are democrats.

Just a hunch.

[Voltaire99]

3. Known by the company you keep.

And who should be surprised that this creep is a lickspittle to Big Pharma?

[salin]

4. Of course he cares - it is how he derives his power

squeezing money out for the campaigns of republicans - so what if it costs citizens health, livelihood and security. As long as his corporate donors get what they want, he gets what he wants - untold political power. He didn't get the name "the hammer" because he looks like a woodsman. He got it due to his ability to leverage great "pain" or "wealth" to fellow republicans - and to those who want to join the ranks of republicans on this Hill.