Pelosi rips GOP lawmaker on job offer

[davidinalameda]

Go Nancy!!!!

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/28/tauzin.pelosi/index.html

The House's top Democrat, Nancy Pelosi of California, strongly criticized a Republican lawmaker Wednesday for his consideration of a lucrative job offer from the pharmaceutical industry -- an offer that came weeks after he helped to negotiate a sweeping Medicare bill that established a prescription drug benefit for America's seniors.

Pelosi called it "inappropriate" and an "abuse of power" for Rep. W.J. "Billy" Tauzin, R-Louisiana, to consider the offer from the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturing Association (PhRMA), one of the city's most powerful lobbies, to head up the organization. The job would pay him more than $1 million a year, according to sources

[peterh]

1. I think Pelosi’s words will carry even more venom next to this item…

WASHINGTON (AP)--President George W. Bush's new budget will project that the
just-enacted prescription drug program and Medicare overhaul will cost one-third
more than previously estimated and will predict a deficit exceeding $500 billion
for this year, congressional aides said Thursday.
Instead of a $400 billion 10-year price tag, Bush's 2005 budget will estimate
the Medicare bill's cost at about $540 billion, said aides who spoke on
condition of anonymity. Bush will submit on Monday a federal budget for the
fiscal year 2005, which starts next Oct. 1.
Bush just signed the Medicare measure into law last month. While it was moving
through Congress, Bush, White House officials and congressional Republican
leaders had assured doubting conservatives that the bill's costs would stay
within the $400 billion estimate.


is that a Ka-ching I hear...