Another friend of Bill's...

...Frist that is. Big pharma has some big phriends: Pfrist and Pfatso Hastert.

Hastert, Frist said to rig bill for drug firms - Thursday, 02/09/06

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and House Speaker Dennis Hastert engineered a backroom legislative maneuver to protect pharmaceutical companies from lawsuits, say witnesses to the pre-Christmas power play.

The language was tucked into a Defense Department appropriations bill at the last minute without the approval of members of a House-Senate conference committee, say several witnesses, including a top Republican staff member.

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