Tag: Pfizer

Bernie Sanders called on the Treasury to write new rules to prevent Pfizer from avoiding U.S. taxes if it undergoes its planned $160 billion deal with Dublin-based Allergan. (AP Photo)

Sanders takes aim at Pfizer-Allergan inversion

Joseph Lawler · March 18, 2016 5:35 pm

"We're hearing the beginning of a giant sucking sound," said Rep. Kevin Brady. "Many more companies could be forced to restructure." (AP File Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Fleeing firms put pressure on Congress and candidates

Joseph Lawler · February 26, 2016 5:01 am

"Pfizer and other pharmaceutical companies can no longer be allowed to rip off American patients who already pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs," Bernie Sanders said. (AP Photo)

Sanders seizes on report that Pfizer will dodge $35 billion in taxes

Joseph Lawler · February 25, 2016 7:21 pm

Ohio and California aren't the only states to consider taking action on drug prices, but their effort goes the furthest. (Frank Polich/Bloomberg News)

Drug companies spend millions to fight price cap laws

Robert King · December 29, 2015 5:01 am

Sanders typically leads the 2016 democratic candidates in leaning to the left on issues. While Sanders took the most stringent view of the merger, other candidates echoed the democratic socialist's view. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Sanders leads leftward Dem movement on Pfizer merger

Ariel Cohen · November 23, 2015 10:37 pm

Pfizer executives donated $39,375 directly to Clinton's presidential campaign between April and the end of September, according to Federal Election Commission records. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Clinton blasts Pfizer, a major Clinton donor

Sarah Bedford · November 23, 2015 8:55 pm

Blighted property lies June 27, 2005 in downtown New London, Connecticut.Â Today, the land that was once the Fort Trumbull neighborhood of New London, Conn., is a field of rubble. The brilliant plans of the powerful planners failed. They had torn down a neighborhood to make it nicer for a new Pfizer plant. Pfizer left the plant a few years later. Nothing has taken the place of Fort Trumbull.Â (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Property rights are for the little guy: Raisins and Kelo at 10 years

Timothy P. Carney · June 23, 2015 9:03 pm

Of the 55 firms that donated to the foundation, 36 paid to lobby the State Department during at least one year of ClintonÃ¢â¬â¢s term. (AP)

Most firms that gave to Clinton Foundation also lobbied State Department

Sarah Bedford · May 15, 2015 9:00 am

Pfizer to pay $35M to settle drug marketing case

Washington Examiner · August 6, 2014 9:07 pm

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Why lobbying is a dud for most companies but benefits their CEOs

Timothy P. Carney · July 12, 2014 9:00 pm

Pfizer wins third case over subsidiary’s asbestos-containing product

Heather Isringhausen Gvillo · June 26, 2014 2:59 pm

Third Circuit dismisses securities class action lawsuit against Pfizer

Kyla Asbury · June 23, 2014 7:32 pm