Capitol Hill Strategies

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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">...</font></div><div><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span class="mw-headline" id="Legislative_history" style="">Legislative history</span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">According to the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Times" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">New York Times</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> December 17, 2004 editorial </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Tauzin" title="Billy Tauzin" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;"><b style="">W.J."Billy" Tauzin</b></a><b style="">,</b></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> the Louisiana Republican who chaired the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.House_Committee_on_Energy_and_Commerce" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Energy and Commerce Committee</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> from 2001 until February 4, 2004 was one of the chief architects of the new Medicare law.</span><sup id="cite_ref-NYT_2004_dec_17_6-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_Prescription_Drug,Improvement,and_Modernization_Act#cite_note-NYT_2004_dec_17-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-USNews_2004_7-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_Prescription_Drug,Improvement,and_Modernization_Act#cite_note-USNews_2004-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> In 2004 when Tauzin was appointed as chief lobbyist for the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmaceutical_Research_and_Manufacturers_of_America" title="Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (PhRMA), the trade association and lobby group for the drug industry with a "rumored salary of $2 million a year,"</span><sup id="cite_ref-NYT_2004_dec_17_6-1" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_Prescription_Drug,Improvement,and_Modernization_Act#cite_note-NYT_2004_dec_17-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> drawing criticism from a Washington-based </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Citizen" title="Public Citizen" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Public Citizen</a>, the consumer advocacy group. They claimed that Tauzin "may have been negotiating for the lobbying job while writing the Medicare legislation."<sup id="cite_ref-USNews_2004_7-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_Prescription_Drug,Improvement,and_Modernization_Act#cite_note-USNews_2004-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[7]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-washingtonpost_dec_2004_8-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_Prescription_Drug,Improvement,and_Modernization_Act#cite_note-washingtonpost_dec_2004-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[8]</a></sup> Tauzin was responsible for including a provision that prohibited Medicare from negotiating prices with drug companies</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_Prescription_Drug,Improvement,and_Modernization_Act#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup></font></p><blockquote class="templatequote" style="overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 40px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"It's a sad commentary on politics in Washington that a member of Congress who pushed through a major piece of legislation benefiting the drug industry, gets the job leading that industry."</font></p><div class="templatequotecite" style="line-height: 1.5em; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">—<b> </b><cite style="font-style: inherit;"><b>Public Citizen</b> President Joan Claybrook 2004</cite></font></div></blockquote><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said,<sup id="cite_ref-USNews_2004_7-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_Prescription_Drug,Improvement,and_Modernization_Act#cite_note-USNews_2004-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup></font></p><blockquote class="templatequote" style="overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 40px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"I think if seniors want to know why the pharmaceutical companies made out so well at their expense, all they have to do is look at this. This is an abuse of power. This is a conflict of interest."</font></p><div class="templatequotecite" style="line-height: 1.5em; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">— <cite style="font-style: inherit;">House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi 2004</cite></font></div></blockquote><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The bill was debated and negotiated for nearly six months in Congress, and finally passed amid unusual circumstances. Several times in the legislative process the bill had appeared to have failed, but each time was saved when a couple of Congressmen and Senators switched positions on the bill.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The bill was introduced in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">House of Representatives</a> early on June 25, 2003 as H.R. 1, sponsored by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Speaker of the United States House of Representatives" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Speaker</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Hastert" title="Dennis Hastert" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Dennis Hastert</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. All that day and the next the bill was debated, and it was apparent that the bill would be very divisive. In the early morning of June 27, a floor vote was taken. After the initial electronic vote, the count stood at 214 yeas, 218 nays.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Three Republican representatives then changed their votes. One opponent of the bill, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_J.Istook,Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Ernest J. Istook, Jr." style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ernest J. Istook, Jr.</a> (R-OK-5), changed his vote to "present" upon being told that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.W.Bill_Young" class="mw-redirect" title="C.W. Bill Young" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">C.W. Bill Young</a> (R-FL-10), who was absent due to a death in the family, would have voted "aye" if he had been present. Next, Republicans <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_Otter" title="Butch Otter" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Butch Otter</a> (ID-1) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Ann_Emerson" title="Jo Ann Emerson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jo Ann Emerson</a> (MO-8) switched their vote to "aye" under pressure from the party leadership. The bill passed by one vote, 216-215.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On June 26, the Senate passed its version of the bill, 76-21. The bills were unified in conference, and on November 21, the bill came back to the House for approval.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The bill came to a vote at 3 a.m. on November 22. After 45 minutes, the bill was losing, 219-215, with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wu" title="David Wu" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">David Wu</a> (D-OR-1) not voting. Speaker <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Hastert" title="Dennis Hastert" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Dennis Hastert</a> and <b>Majority Leader <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_DeLay" title="Tom DeLay" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Tom DeLay</a> sought to convince some of dissenting Republicans to switch their votes</b>, as they had in June. Istook, who had always been a wavering vote, consented quickly, producing a 218-216 tally. In a highly unusual move, the House leadership held the vote open for hours as they sought two more votes. Then-Representative <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Smith(U.S.politician)" title="Nick Smith (U.S. politician)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Nick Smith</a> (R-MI) claimed he was offered campaign funds for his son, who was running to replace him, in return for a change in his vote from "nay" to "yea." After controversy ensued, Smith clarified no explicit offer of campaign funds was made, but that he was offered "substantial and aggressive campaign support" which he had assumed included financial support.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_Prescription_Drug,Improvement,and_Modernization_Act#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At about 5:50 a.m., Otter and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks" title="Trent Franks" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Trent Franks</a> (AZ-2) were convinced to switch their votes. With passage assured, Wu voted yea as well, and Democrats <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_M.Dooley" class="mw-redirect" title="Calvin M. Dooley" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Calvin M. Dooley</a> (CA-20), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Marshall(U.S.politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jim Marshall (U.S. politician)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jim Marshall</a> (GA-3) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Scott(Georgia_politician)" title="David Scott (Georgia politician)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">David Scott</a> (GA-13) changed their votes to the affirmative. But <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Miller(congressman)" class="mw-redirect" title="Brad Miller (congressman)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Brad Miller</a> (D-NC-13), and then, Republican <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Culberson" title="John Culberson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John Culberson</a> (TX-7), reversed their votes from "yea" to "nay". The bill passed 220-215.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_Prescription_Drug,Improvement,and_Modernization_Act#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Democrats cried foul,</b> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Thomas" title="Bill Thomas" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bill Thomas</a>, the Republican chairman of the Ways and Means committee, challenged the result in a gesture to satisfy the concerns of the minority. He subsequently voted to table his own challenge; the tally to table was 210 ayes, 193 noes.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2011)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Senate's consideration of the conference report was somewhat less heated, as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloture" title="Cloture" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">cloture</a> on it was invoked by a vote of 70-29.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_Prescription_Drug,Improvement,and_Modernization_Act#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup> However, a budget point of order raised by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Daschle" title="Tom Daschle" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Tom Daschle</a>, and voted on. As 60 votes were necessary to override it, the challenge was actually considered to have a credible chance of passing.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For several minutes, the vote total was stuck at 58-39, until Senators <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsey_Graham" title="Lindsey Graham" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Lindsey Graham</a> (R-SC), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Lott" title="Trent Lott" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Trent Lott</a> (R-MS), and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Wyden" title="Ron Wyden" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ron Wyden</a> (D-OR) voted in quick succession in favour to pass the vote 61-39.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_Prescription_Drug,Improvement,and_Modernization_Act#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a></sup> The bill itself was finally passed 54-44 on November 25, 2003, and was signed into law by the President on December 8.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_Prescription_Drug,Improvement,and_Modernization_Act#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Costs">Costs</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Medicare_Prescription_Drug,Improvement,and_Modernization_Act&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Costs" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Initially, the net cost of the program was projected at $400 billion for the ten-year period between 2004 and 2013. Administration official <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_A.Scully" title="Thomas A. Scully" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Thomas Scully</a> instructed analyst Richard Foster not to tell Congress of Foster's finding that the cost would actually be over $500 billion. One month after passage, the administration estimated that the net cost of the program over the period between 2006 (the first year the program started paying benefits) and 2015 would be $534 billion.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_Prescription_Drug,Improvement,and_Modernization_Act#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup> As of February 2009, the projected net cost of the program over the 2006 to 2015 period was $549.2 billion.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_Prescription_Drug,Improvement,and_Modernization_Act#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Negotiating_of_prescription_drug_prices" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">Negotiating of prescription drug prices</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Since the enactment of Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act in 2003, only insurance companies administering Medicare prescription drug program, not Medicare, have the legal right to negotiate drug prices directly from drug manufacturers. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Medicare Prescription Drug act expressly prohibited Medicare from negotiating bulk prescription drug prices.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_Prescription_Drug,Improvement,and_Modernization_Act#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup><sup class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;">:117</sup><sup id="cite_ref-Samuel_2004_political-prescription_18-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_Prescription_Drug,Improvement,and_Modernization_Act#cite_note-Samuel_2004_political-prescription-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a></sup> On January 31, 2017, President Trump, following his meeting with CEOs of pharmaceutical firms and the chairmen of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmaceutical_Research_and_Manufacturers_of_America" title="Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-reuters_T100_drugmakers_19-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_Prescription_Drug,Improvement,and_Modernization_Act#cite_note-reuters_T100_drugmakers-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a></sup> who had promised to let "Medicare negotiate bulk discounts in the price it pays for prescription drugs," abandoned his pledge.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_Prescription_Drug,Improvement,and_Modernization_Act#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a></sup> On February 7, 2017, White House spokesman <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Spicer" title="Sean Spicer" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Sean Spicer</a> confirmed that President Trump still favored medicare negotiating the prices of prescription drugs.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_Prescription_Drug,Improvement,and_Modernization_Act#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a></sup></span></font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">bs</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Charles M. Brain, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">President of Capitol Hill Strategies, LLC</em></font></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Chuck Brain is widely recognized as one of the most experienced legislative affairs consultants in Washington, with a wide range of experience both in and out of government. He is proud to have founded Capitol Hill Strategies over fifteen years ago.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Beginning his career as a Legislative Assistant to a UNNAMED freshman Member of Congress, he has served as Deputy Chief of Staff to the Committee of Ways and Means, and eventually served President Clinton as Assistant to the President and Director of Legislative Affairs.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As the President’s chief of congressional relations, Brain participated in the development of the Administration’s legislative agenda and was responsible for devising and implementing the strategy for securing its passage. He is widely recognized on Capitol Hill for his excellent relationships in both the House and the Senate and with both Democratic and Republican Members of Congress.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Among the historic pieces of legislation his work has included passage of controversial legislation such as the<b> North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA, 1993),</b> the Tax Reform Act of 1986, the Social Security Act Amendments of 1983, the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Acts of 1990 and 1993, China Permanent Normal Trade Relations (2000), the <b>Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement (2003),</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b><a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/06/19/the_forgotten_flip_flop_2003_medicare_reform.html">http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/06/19/the_forgotten_flip_flop_2003_medicare_reform.html</a></b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b> and Modernization Act, and Affordable Care Act (ACA or Obamacare)</b>. These bills are truly historic and the issues relevant today.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">With his Ph. D. from the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Brain also received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Boston College. He is the author of Social Security at the Crossroads (Garland Press), an analysis of the role of public opinion in the legislative process. He is also a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance.</font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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Prior to joining <span style="font-weight: bold;">Capitol Hill Strategies</span>, he served as senior director, federal government relations for UST Public Affairs Inc.</font></span></a><div class="TXwUJf" style=""><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:E5JrhMCaOlYJ:https://www.caphillstrat.com/staff-members/beau-schuyler/+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:E5JrhMCaOlYJ:https://www.caphillstrat.com/staff-members/beau-schuyler/%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=0ahUKEwjJg9LaidbaAhULcq0KHdDgAQMQIAg5MAI" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Missing: <s>koch</s></font></a></div></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="59" data-ved="0ahUKEwjJg9LaidbaAhULcq0KHdDgAQMQFQg7KAMwAw"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><h3 class="r" style="font-weight: normal; 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The groups still plan to spend up to $400 million on politics and policies this election cycle, but they're deeply frustrated by what they view ...</font></span></a></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="84" data-ved="0ahUKEwjJg9LaidbaAhULcq0KHdDgAQMQFQhUKAYwBg"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><h3 class="r" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/koch-network-reevaluating-midterm-election-strategy-frances-macron-to-press-trump-to-keep-iran-deal-2018-04-24" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.marketwatch.com/story/koch-network-reevaluating-midterm-election-strategy-frances-macron-to-press-trump-to-keep-iran-deal-2018-04-24&ved=0ahUKEwjJg9LaidbaAhULcq0KHdDgAQMQFghVMAY" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Koch network reev</font></a></h3></div></div></div></div><div style=""><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>