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As the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday deadlocked along party lines on whether to advance the nomination of Xavier Becerra as secretary of Health and Human Services, a new analysis shows that the 14 Republican members of the panel have taken $36.1 million from the health sector, including $9.6 million from Big Pharma a fact that progressives say explains the GOP s opposition to President Joe Biden s Cabinet pick, a supporter of Medicare for All.
While Xavier Becerra has spent his career taking on the pharmaceutical industry for their corrupt price gouging, Senate Republicans have spent their political careers lining their pockets with millions of dollars from Big Pharma and furthering the industry s bottom line in Congress, Mairead Lynn, spokesperson for the Accountable Senate War ....

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