Talk:Billy Tauzin

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Can't someone add more on just how corrupt this guy was, while in Congress? I mean, he was widely known as someone whose vote could be bought on any topic. He took money from every corporation he could. His district is among the most polluted in the country. Identifying corruption and conflicts of interest is not POV, it's fact. It's not my District or else I'd chip in, but surely someone can add more than what is here. Thanks!

If it was so widely known why don't you find some documentation for your allegations?

It's gonna happen pretty soon, once Sicko is out. There are a few bio pages out here that will be cleaned up a bit. This guy's is one of them.

Good, this page does a horrible job explaining just how corrupt he is.

Washington Post reference

What's up with the reference to Tauzin "push[ing] Andersen off the bridge"? There is no context whatsoever provided for this statement, and no link is provided for the actual article. A quick search on the WaPo website yielded no hits. If this can't be fixed, I'm going to remove the paragraph. --Ball&Chain 15:58, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Pronounciation

[tozɪn]? [tuzɪn]? [tauzɪn]?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.224.199.138 (talk • contribs) 2007-08-10T14:28:09

Going by Michael Moore in SiCKO, it's TOES in. / edg ☺ ☭ 01:44, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

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Fired from PhRMA

This article from the NYT explains why Tauzin was fired from PhRMA.

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/health/policy/13pharm.html
One Grand Deal Too Many Costs Lobbyist His Job
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and DUFF WILSON
New York Times
FEB. 12, 2010

it is to his Texas ranch that Mr. Tauzin, 66, will retreat, to contemplate the apparent collapse of the grandest in a career of fearless deals — a pact to trade the drug industry’s political support for favorable terms under President Obama’s proposed health care overhaul.

Mr. Tauzin is leaving his $2 million-a-year job as the top lobbyist for the drug industry amid complaints from drug makers that he bargained away their profits too cheaply, spent too much in his $150 million advertising campaign to sell the overhaul and miscalculated in his assessment that the passage of the legislation was all but inevitable.

--Nbauman (talk) 15:54, 13 August 2018 (UTC)