During his 2008 presidential run, Barack Obama ran an ad featuring him at a campaign stop, blasting former Congressman turned lobbyist Billy Tauzin.

As chairman of the House Energy and Commerce committee in 2003, Tauzin had shepherded the Medicare prescription drug legislation through Congress, which was a multi-billion dollar giveaway to the drug industry. After leaving the Congress shortly thereafter, he landed a lucrative gig leading the pharmaceutical industry’s lobbying group.