HR-4, Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act

Submitted by Todd on Sat, 01/13/2007 - 12:44am.

Here are the votes on HR-4, Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act.

The total votes were 255 votes "Yea," and 170 votes "No," which is 35 votes short of what it will take to override Bush's promised veto. Only Walter Jones crossed party lines on this one.

District 01 Butterfield, G K (D) - Yea
District 02 Etheridge, Bob (D) - Yea
District 03 Jones, Walter B Jr (R) - Yea
District 04 Price, David (D) - Yea
District 05 Foxx, Virginia (R) - No
District 06 Coble, Howard (R) - No
District 07 McIntyre, Mike (D) - Yea
District 08 Hayes, Robin (R) - No
District 09 Myrick, Sue (R) - No
District 10 McHenry, Patrick (R) - No
District 11 Shuler, Heath (D) - Yea
District 12 Watt, Melvin L (D) - Yea
District 13 Miller, Brad (D) - Yea

Once again, we see the Party of Greed following their marching orders from big pharma. If it's OK for the VA to negotiate lower drug prices, how can it not be OK for Medicare, too?

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Hayes votes to continue the boondoggle he helped create

Submitted by Betsy Muse on Sat, 01/13/2007 - 9:02am.



Robin Hayes lied. Nobody died, but thousands of folks lost their jobs.

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pretty obvious

Submitted by Blue South on Sat, 01/13/2007 - 9:07am.

Its NOT ok for the VA to negotiate. But if they changed that then the media might finally start calling them on their treatment of vets.

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