Biggest Drug Companies Expand Lobbying Army in 2001: New Report Shows Size, Strength, Connections of Drug Lobby as House Takes Up Medicare Rx Drug Legislation

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Biggest Drug Companies Expand Lobbying Army in 2001

New Report Shows Size, Strength, Connections of Drug Lobby as House Takes Up Medicare Rx Drug Legislation

The drug industry hired an army of 623 lobbyists in 2001 to promote its agenda in Congress In 2001, the drug industry's army of lobbyists easily outnumbered all 535 members of Congress as pharmaceutical companies employed 623 different hired guns, according to a new Public Citizen report based on newly available data.

These same drug lobbyists are expected to swarm Capitol Hill next week as the House Energy and Commerce and the House Ways and Means committees begin to mark up Medicare prescription drug legislation.

To read the entire press release, click here: http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=1130

To read Public Citizen's report, The Other Drug War II: Drug Companies Use an Army of 623 Lobbyists to Keep Profits Up, click here: http://www.citizen.org/congress/reform/drug_industry/contribution/articles.cfm?ID=7827

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