Over at Party Time we're reporting how the National Republican Campaign Committee (NRCC) accidentally sent out a list of fundraising events that included a June 11 breakfast for Rep. Gary Peters (D-MI) and featuring "special guest" Rep. John Dingell (D-MI).
Whoops! That may have been taking bipartisanship a bit far, especially since the NRCC is targeting Peters right now for going overboard with government spending.
Minutes after sending that list out, the NRCC sent out a new list: "Please disregard previous Calendar of Events. See attached." Mention of the Peters fundraiser had disappeared.
Continue readingAn Army of pharma trips?
The Center for Public Integrity has analyzed 22,000 Pentagon travel disclosures -- filed when an outside party pays for a trip taken by Department of Defense personnel. The finding that jumped out at both Anu and me:
The medical industry paid for more travel than any other single interest over $10 million for some 8,700 trips, or about 40 percent of all outside sponsored travel. Among the targets: military pharmacists, doctors, and others who administer the Pentagon's $6 billion-plus annual budget for prescription drugs
I would have expected Defense contractors to be number one. I hope CPI follows ...
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