researchers parted the careers of people reviewing medications at the fda. they found that 60% of those reviewers who left the fda went on to work for the pharmaceutical companies. they said the lead researcher if you know in the back of your mind that your career goal may be to some they work at the other side of the table, i wonder whether that changes the way you regulate. yet. i wonder. perhaps, the most blatant example of the health swap revolving door is former louisiana congressman. in 2001-2004 he chaired the health energy and commerce committee which oversees the fda. during that time drug companies with health insurance between the nearly $1 million campaign. he was instrumental in pushing the modernization act of 2003 to the house. by doing so, he ensured that medicare cannot negotiate with drug manufacturers for lower prices. he also made sure that drugs manufactured here and exported
you re not good like brand-new congress but if you want to rebuild america s means of making a living and that s why he voted for trump because that s what trump talked about the media didn t cover it but that was his stump speech every time he spoke to stadia. we want to repeat the american economy and you think the way the democrats talk about that about doing that which is just to sprinkle money into people s pockets or if you think the republican solution is to bed which is just the same thing but opposite which is let s cut taxes, neither of those solutions are going to fix our economy. we need to build the economy. viewers should join first go to. steve: lot more time to talk but. you have to go to rob for the 18, rob with two b s 2018 .com. e-mail rob at join at rob 2018 .com. steve: leave it there for the
from our nato allies in the fence penny which is a positive thing. you look at the litmus test that he put on things like the cuba deal and rolling them back because he felt that we did not get enough concessions under the obama administration. same thing with the paris agreement. about the united states was disadvantaged in the agreement and said he was open to renegotiation but i think that s the lens which he is looking at the way that we interact with
fourth of july holiday. we did it in an all-american way with an rv trip to some of the most beautiful national parks. for those who don t believe me, here i am hanging off the back of our rv. as you know, everything is bigger in america so here we are with a big boulder and with general sherman, the world s biggest tree. we were kayaking on the strip, lots of experiments with grilling and a swim in a beautiful mountain lake. of course, no july the fourth road trip would be complete without a dinosaur paddling a surfboard. thank you, america. thanks to all the dedicated park rangers who did such a busy amazing job protecting our national parks. i had fun and i hope you had fun this week on the show. i turned to the panel for the final thoughts. couple of seconds each. liz back i love your section on pharmaceuticals. i would urge people to watch because trump was very strong on
worked out in advance. we are putting on the ballot is a chance to have america vote for a new congress and the way that they now vote for president there will be restraining and highly. i talk about this alternate reality with last year i think 90% of the incumbents were reelected but. stevewere alreadyliving in an ay where donald trump was elected. [inaudible conversations] steve: you written about our politics and the divisiveness and the idea that this is bringing people together from different parties around this populist agenda. i don t get practical. i work for a washington writers group and i don t live in