How Big Pharma Flipped Kyrsten Sinema
Big Pharma needed a senator to do their dirty work to kill or gut Democrats’ drug pricing plan. They found someone willing and able in Kyrsten Sinema.
Senator Kyrsten Sinema on June 16, 2021. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call Inc via Getty Images)
“The pharmaceutical lobby is very savvy,” Democratic representative Ro Khanna (D-CA), said earlier this week during a Daily Poster live chat. “They pick the one or two people they need to block things, on the relevant committees or at the relevant time.”
“It may differ from Congress to Congress,” explained Khanna, who is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. “We try to get 90 to 95 percent [of the caucus]. They are focused not on 90 percent but the blockers.”
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