Commemorative Series No. 2 · The Drug Money
OUTSPENTNo. 49/54
Robert
Bennett
U.S. Senate · R-UT
Taken from pharma & insurers
$5,500
H.R.1 · Medicare drug-price ban · 2003tap to flip ⤺
WHO THEY WORK FORNo. 49/54
Pharma & Health$5,500
Banned Medicare from negotiating drug prices for 19 years. Once it could (2024), prices fell 38–79%. · 108-1-459OUTSPENT
Card 49 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
$5,500
The industry spent on the bill
$116M
on drug-industry lobbying in 2003, about ten lobbyists for every senator
Then, after office
Lobbied for clients including JPMorgan Chase and the Financial Services Forum.
Source: Arent Fox; HuffPost
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$5,500
PhRMA$2,500
Bristol Myers Squibb$1,500
Johnson & Johnson$750
Eli Lilly$500
Merck$250