Chuck Grassley is sticking around as the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, one of the centers of power in the health reform debate.
… Grassley and Max Baucus, who chairs the committee, had lunch at the White House today with Barack Obama and Joe Biden. They spent most of the meal talking about health reform, the Des Moines Register reports.
… The prospect [that Grassley might leave Finance] apparently had some pharma lobbyists pretty excited, given Grassley’s scrutiny of the industry.
But it didn’t work out that way…
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LAMENT OF THE MED SCHOOL FACULTY
We thought with the end of Chuck Grassley
We could go back to acting all crassly.
But our passion for pharma’s
Run into bad karma:
The man is alive, and it’s ghastly.