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Sputtering mad as I read about the massive, smug cartel of generic drug execs responsible for price-fixing their profits through the roof and their customers to death. wapo.st/2rrKD7F?tid=ss…
My son has asthma, and we buy a constant chain of inhalers. Looks like criminal price fixing is behind the 3400% price spike. I want these corporate execs facing justice, stat.
Have diabetes? Know someone who does? Then you probably know about insulin prices. What we need to know now is how much the price hikes were due to lawbreaking by wealthy drug company execs rigging the markets.

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You and me both, Eric
Let’s get these execs testifying under oath when the new House majority is sworn in.
"Competing executives were so chummy they had an alphabetical rotation for who picked up the tab at their regular dinners"—one of several regular opportunities to "swap sensitive information about markets and prices."

This among execs meant to be in competition with each other.
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Kids’ inaugural gala for @GovEvers and @TheOtherMandela!
When you elect a teacher governor, he doesn’t just use little ones as props. He throws a gala at the Children’s Museum and talks directly to the kids.
Q&A with kids. Child asks Tony Evers what he, as a kid, wanted to be when he grew up. Answers that he first job was scraping mold off cheese, which taught him what he *didn’t* want to do, so he became a teacher. #KidsGala
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Minnesota’s 11th State Senate district has a primary on Jan 22 and a general special election on Feb 5, one month from now. If you care about health care, there’s just one choice: Stu Lourey.

He’s also a profoundly decent, kind, & excellent human being.

Stu has been doing health policy in the Senate. He worked with my wife, so I got to know him personally as well as professionally. He’s got a kind of radiant affability, combined with a razor-sharp mind and unshakable principles.
He’s the kind of guy who would come over for dinner, read to your kids before bedtime (at their insistence), and then fix your ceiling fan—all while brainstorming brilliant strategies to expand access to rural health care & curb the opioid crisis. We wouldn’t want him to leave.
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Here’s the reality: this shutdown could end with Trump cracking—or with McConnell simply overriding a Trump veto and re-passing the spending bill that previously sailed unanimously through the Senate and, in the next Congress, just passed the House.
Tons of GOP senators are up in 2020, incl
@SenJoniErnst @SenCoryGardner @SenatorCollins @SenThomTillis @sendavidperdue @SenMcSallyAZ—all of whom will lose if there’s a swing to D even close to as big as in 2018, giving Ds a majority even if Jones falls. & @senatemajldr is up too
The conventional wisdom is that voters have short memories and that damage from shutdowns fades fast. But that won’t apply if this lasts for months. Nobody forgot health care repeal. This shutdown will cause more & more real pain. And the public knows who’s inflicting it on them.
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I am really incensed today about the needless attacks on @MichaelAvenatti as a trial lawyer, not because I'm in his camp for POTUS (I am uncommitted), but because I WAS a trial lawyer. People seem to forget that trial lawyers are responsible for the following:

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