Click to read:Health Care Lobbyists' Rise to Power Oct 21, 2009
Congressman Billy Tauzin, and Senators John Breaux and Don Nickles each held key roles in passing or shaping Part D. All three then left their government jobs and became lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry. Tauzin reportedly earns a $2 million salary to head up the biggest pharmaceutical lobby group: PhRMA. Breaux and Nickles have started lobby firms that are each pulling in six figures from the drug industry. (CBS News)
MINOR/Remember Trent Lott? Sep 17, 2009
Republican Lott stunned Mississippi's political landscape in December two years ago by announcing his resignation from the U.S. Senate for rather nebulous reasons, thinly masking his real intention to get into big-time Washington lobbying with his old Senate sidekick, John Breaux, the Louisiana Democrat. Breaux-Lott Leadership Group is now a going concern with heavyweight clients. (Philadelphia Neshoba Democrat, MS)
Lott portrait unveiled Sep 17, 2009
John Breaux, a Democrat from Louisiana. "I did my race and it was time for me to go do something else," he said. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Huckabee: ObamaCare would have abandoned Kennedy Aug 30, 2009
In 1999, a commission co-chaired by House Republican Bill Thomas and Senate Democrat John Breaux proposed that Washington instead provide seniors a grant each year to purchase health insurance. Under that approach, seniors would no longer be guaranteed open-ended payment for care, but only a government voucher to help them buy whatever insurance they could afford. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Feehery: Bipartisanship is hard work Aug 25, 2009
Max Baucus and John Breaux brought it to the finish line in conference. What lessons can be found by looking back at the prescription drug experience. (CNN -- US)
GOP'S BEST MEDICINE Aug 16, 2009
Seeing that Medicare costs were out of control, Clinton set up a bipartisan Medicare Commission headed by John Breaux (D-La. . (New York Post -- Opinions)
Valley agencies clamor for lobbyists Aug 10, 2009
John Breaux of Louisiana, a canny Democratic dealmaker on the powerful Senate Finance Committee. The committee handles taxes, and the wine industry wants to avoid new alcohol excise taxes. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
The Medicare-Isn't-Government Meme Aug 6, 2009
John Breaux, a Louisiana Democrat, was accosted at the airport by an elderly constituent. "Now don't you let the government get a hold of my Medicare," she said. (Slate)
Political veteran Hatfield to lobby for California wine industry Aug 4, 2009
Place an obit: (559) 441-6228. Web Search powered by YAHOO. (Fresno Bee -- Business)
Volcker to head bid to overhaul nation's tax code Mar 26, 2009
Those constraints were reminiscent of several imposed by former President George W. Bush when he convened a national commission to consider tax reform in 2005 that was headed by former senators Connie Mack, a Florida Republican, and John Breaux, a Louisiana Democrat. The panel unanimously agreed after 10 months to recommend scrapping or restructuring many popular deductions. (Boston Globe)
Obama’s 'Cap and Trade' Plan Imposes Huge Tax Mar 2, 2009
Bennett Johnston, John Breaux and David Boren could not justify so angering the public and instructed the new president how the world would work. There are two lessons here. (Human Events Online)
Losing a quest, finding a new freedom Feb 18, 2009
Kennedy and Biden eventually lined up senators from the Deep South such as J. Bennett Johnston and John Breaux of Louisiana, and Richard Shelby and Howell Heflin of Alabama, among many others. "We knew we'd beat Bork from Marttila's poll," says Pat Caddell, who was working with Kennedy at this point. (Boston Globe)
