[opendtv] Re: Rep. Dingell orders investigation of FCC
- From: "Bob Miller" <robmxa@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 16:20:03 -0500
On Dec 5, 2007 2:02 PM, Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> One more thing.
>
> The telecommunications industry is not unique in terms of cozying up
> to politicians to avoid those pesky market based pressures on their
> industry.
>
> Almost every major industry has trades associations that ply the
> politicians with money in return for legislative and regulatory
> advantage. lawyers, Physicians, the pharmecutical industry and on and
> on.
>
> The good news for the politicians is that the tactics are the same
> for every industry - only the specific challenges of each industry
> are different, although the major thrust is to limit competition in
> return for government regulation.
>
> Take Billy Tauzin for example. He focused on the telecommunications
> business, like Dingell, but when he left office to make some REAL
> money, he went to work for the pharmaceutical industry, to prevent
> any apparent conflict of interest...
>
> Regards
> Craig
Your joking? Where is your smiley with a wink?
Tauzin was big in drugs and telecommunications. Drugs paid him more is all.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10138-2004Feb3.html
"Tauzin was one of the principal authors of the Medicare prescription drug
bill, which included several provisions expected to vastly expand the market
for prescription drugs among the elderly. In addition to adding hundreds of
billions of dollars for drug benefits, the law bars the federal government
from directly bargaining down the price of drugs, a provision PhRMA pressed
for.
He recused himself from participating in health care issues before his
committee last week and is expected to take the PhRMA offer and leave the
House before his term expires. Public Citizen, a public interest group, has
called for an ethics investigation of Tauzin."
Bob Miller
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