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Editorial: Trolling for the Spoils of Office

SOURCE: Editorial Staff // The New York Times

6 Apr 2008 // The platinum standard for revolving-door enrichment in Congress remains former Representative Billy Tauzin. The Louisiana Republican secretly negotiated a $2-million-a-year job as the pharmaceutical industry’s chief lobbyist about the same time he was drafting the Medicare drug benefit program.

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