Boehner Blasts Ex-Rep. Tauzin For PhRMA Working With “Bully” Obama On Health Care Reform The Hill reports that House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) has sent a letter to PhRMA president Billy Tauzin, who is a former Republican Congressman from Louisiana, castigating Tauzin and PhRMA for working constructively with President Obama on health care reform. “When a bully asks for your lunch money, you may have no choice but to fork it over,” Boehner wrote. “But cutting a deal with the bully is a different story, particularly if the ‘deal’ means helping him steal others’ money as the price of protecting your own.”
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