NEW YORK (Reuters) – Lobbyists working for biotech company Genentech wrote statements for more than a dozen lawmakers in the official record of the House debate on the health care bill, The New York Times reported on Sunday, citing e-mails. …
Read Original Story: Lawmakers used Genentech statements: report – Reuters
It looks like the official House of Representatives debate record needs to open an account with turnitin.com. According to an article in The New York Times, a whole bunch of the speeches given by Democrats and Republicans over the …
Read Original Story: Lobbyists write the script, reps follow – Central Florida Future
Money talks. It always has. The New York Times reported today, November 15, that forty-two members of the American House of Representatives were influenced in public presentations by a drug company. Roche is a giant Swiss drug company. …
Read Original Story: Lobbyists' influence and control in congress – Examiner.com
A not-so-shocking article from the New York Times reports 22 Republicans and 20 Democrats used eerily similar statements on health care reform from a speech written for lawmakers by lobbyists working for one of the world’s largest biotechnology …
Read Original Story: Lobbyists write health care reform speeches for Reps., including Lynn Jenkins – Examiner.com
Genentech and its parent, Roche (RHHBY.PK), paid lobbyists nearly $15 million in 2008 and 2009 as they urged congressmen to support the biotech industry’s interests in the healthcare bill and other legislation. …
Read Original Story: What Genentech and Roche Got From Congress for $15M – BNET
The New York Times has learned that Genentech, a subsidiary of the Swiss drugmaker Roche, was able to get an estimated 42 House members from both sides of the aisle to use their exact talking points, written by their lobbyist, Matthew L. Berzok, …
Read Original Story: Reps Recited Same Lobbyist's Script in House Health Care Debate – New York Magazine
(ChattahBox)—The New York Times today, has taken notice of dozens of remarkable similarities in statements read into the official House record during the debate of the historical passage of the health reform bill. Coincidence? Apparently not. …
Read Original Story: Health Care Lobbyists Caught Ghostwriting for Lawmakers – ChattahBox
Those of us former little girls of a certain age can remember a doll that we all had to have. She was called Chatty Cathy, and if you pulled a string in her neck, she would say things like "Please brush my hair" and "Let’s have a party! …
Read Original Story: Our Chatty Cathy Congress – TIME
Excellent story by nyt’s Robert Pear. Statements by more than a dozen members of congress weren’t their own but were written wholly or partly by lobbyists for Genentech, the biopharm company owned by Roche. The statements were put in the Congressional …
Read Original Story: Genentech ghostwrites congressional rhetoric – Baltimore Sun
Political cartoonists have long characterized Washington politicians as puppets of special interests, but the recent revelation about the influence of lobbyists for Genentech during the health care debate demonstrates the joke can be all too real. …
Read Original Story: In House Health Debate, 42 Representatives Used Same Lobbyist Talking Points – AllGov
