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DRUGMAKERS BENEFITING FROM IMPROVED POLITICAL CLIMATE

April 17, 2006

After years of pumping millions of dollars into election campaigns, the pharmaceutical industry is reaping the benefits of a vastly improved political climate on Capitol Hill. The increases in donations have moderated since the last decade as the industry has won passage of long-cherished legislative objectives, or fended off challenges that it deemed a threat to its way of doing business.

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