OutSpent Commemorative Series · No. 2 · The Drug Money
The Drug Money.
54 senators voted yes on H.R.1 (2003). So we minted a card for every one of them — numbered by who took the most (taken from pharma & insurers). Banned Medicare from negotiating drug prices for 19 years. Once it could (2024), prices fell 38–79%..
54 cards. One per yes vote. Find yours.
No. 01/54VOTED YES
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Mitch McConnell
R · KY
$710,190
taken from pharma & insurers
John Warner
R · VA
$296,289
taken from pharma & insurers
Orrin Hatch
R · UT
$222,270
taken from pharma & insurers
Max Baucus
D · MT
$191,603
taken from pharma & insurers
Mike Crapo
R · ID
$185,662
taken from pharma & insurers
John Cornyn
R · TX
$181,375
taken from pharma & insurers
Richard Lugar
R · IN
$176,580
taken from pharma & insurers
Ron Wyden
D · OR
$164,825
taken from pharma & insurers
Arlen Specter
R · PA
$159,750
taken from pharma & insurers
Thomas Carper
D · DE
$118,709
taken from pharma & insurers
Mary Landrieu
D · LA
$118,181
taken from pharma & insurers
Susan Collins
R · ME
$112,632
taken from pharma & insurers
Ben Nelson
D · NE
$110,351
taken from pharma & insurers
Rick Santorum
R · PA
$106,985
taken from pharma & insurers
Chuck Grassley
R · IA
$88,862
taken from pharma & insurers
George Allen
R · VA
$72,508
taken from pharma & insurers
Dianne Feinstein
D · CA
$72,250
taken from pharma & insurers
Pat Roberts
R · KS
$69,850
taken from pharma & insurers
Jon Kyl
R · AZ
$59,512
taken from pharma & insurers
Lisa Murkowski
R · AK
$53,890
taken from pharma & insurers
Norm Coleman
R · MN
$53,488
taken from pharma & insurers
Saxby Chambliss
R · GA
$48,535
taken from pharma & insurers
Elizabeth Dole
R · NC
$41,615
taken from pharma & insurers
Pete Domenici
R · NM
$38,377
taken from pharma & insurers
Olympia Snowe
R · ME
$34,750
taken from pharma & insurers
Lamar Alexander
R · TN
$32,400
taken from pharma & insurers
Kent Conrad
D · ND
$31,250
taken from pharma & insurers
Mike DeWine
R · OH
$31,072
taken from pharma & insurers
Thad Cochran
R · MS
$29,150
taken from pharma & insurers
Richard Shelby
R · AL
$27,163
taken from pharma & insurers
Blanche Lincoln
D · AR
$24,900
taken from pharma & insurers
Jim Inhofe
R · OK
$24,860
taken from pharma & insurers
Jim Bunning
R · KY
$24,250
taken from pharma & insurers
Michael Enzi
R · WY
$23,025
taken from pharma & insurers
Jim Talent
R · MO
$22,533
taken from pharma & insurers
Bill Frist
R · TN
$22,250
taken from pharma & insurers
Kay Hutchison
R · TX
$21,610
taken from pharma & insurers
Conrad Burns
R · MT
$21,350
taken from pharma & insurers
Gordon Smith
R · OR
$20,870
taken from pharma & insurers
Ted Stevens
R · AK
$18,300
taken from pharma & insurers
George Voinovich
R · OH
$16,000
taken from pharma & insurers
Byron Dorgan
D · ND
$14,215
taken from pharma & insurers
John Breaux
D · LA
$14,099
taken from pharma & insurers
Jeff Sessions
R · AL
$9,700
taken from pharma & insurers
Kit Bond
R · MO
$9,350
taken from pharma & insurers
Peter Fitzgerald
R · IL
$9,000
taken from pharma & insurers
Ben Campbell
R · CO
$7,200
taken from pharma & insurers
Wayne Allard
R · CO
$6,200
taken from pharma & insurers
Robert Bennett
R · UT
$5,500
taken from pharma & insurers
Larry Craig
R · ID
$5,250
taken from pharma & insurers
Jim Jeffords
I · VT
$4,150
taken from pharma & insurers
Craig Thomas
R · WY
$4,000
taken from pharma & insurers
Zell Miller
D · GA
$2,000
taken from pharma & insurers
Sam Brownback
R · KS
$1,000
taken from pharma & insurers
The Not-For-Sale Set
The ones they couldn't buy.
We ran the same receipts test on the senators who voted no. These 13 took the least — a fraction of what McConnell took. They get the rare cards.
EMERITUSVOTED NO
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Jon Corzine
D · NJ · retired
$1,375
pharma & insurers · entire career
Daniel Akaka
D · HI · retired
$2,200
pharma & insurers · entire career
Mark Dayton
D · MN · retired
$2,800
pharma & insurers · entire career
Don Nickles
R · OK · retired
$2,800
pharma & insurers · entire career
Herb Kohl
D · WI · retired
$3,350
pharma & insurers · entire career
Judd Gregg
R · NH · retired
$3,700
pharma & insurers · entire career
Paul Sarbanes
D · MD · retired
$6,400
pharma & insurers · entire career
John Ensign
R · NV · retired
$10,000
pharma & insurers · entire career
Chuck Hagel
R · NE · retired
$10,750
pharma & insurers · entire career
Daniel Inouye
D · HI · retired
$12,350
pharma & insurers · entire career
Bob Graham
D · FL · retired
$12,950
pharma & insurers · entire career
Tom Daschle
D · SD · retired
$14,700
pharma & insurers · entire career
Joseph Biden
D · DE · retired
$14,775
pharma & insurers · entire career
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