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Trade body says Boeing was
Sen. Warren blasts drug
approval bill as ‘extortion’ offered illegal tax breaks in U.S.
WASHINGTON
(AP)
— Sen. Elizabeth Warren
delivered a ferocious attack
Monday on congressional
Republicans and Senate
Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell over a medical
research bill, and put fellow
Democrats on the spot by
pushing them to oppose
a measure she said “is
corrupt, and it is very, very
dangerous.”
As Congress began the
final stretch of its post-elec-
tion session, Warren said the
996-page measure — a top
priority for GOP leaders and
backed by the biomedical
industry — was riddled with
provisions that she called “a
bunch of special giveaways”
to big pharmaceutical compa-
nies.
“They didn’t send us here
to whimper, whine or grovel,”
she said on the Senate floor
about Democrats, using the
populist rhetoric that has
given her one of her party’s
highest profiles. “They sent
us here to say no to efforts to
sell Congress to the highest
bidder.”
All but taunting her own
party, Warren, D-Mass., said,
“Republicans will control this
government, but they cannot
hand that control over to big
corporations unless Demo-
crats roll over and allow them
to do so.”
She said the research
bill would “legalize fraud”
by reducing the scientific
evidence the government
needs to approve existing
drugs for new uses. She said it
would “cover up bribery” by
exempting medical compa-
nies from publicly reporting
some payments they make to
doctors.
Those provisions, she
said, outweighed the “tiny fig
leaf” of additional money the
bill provides for biomedical
research and combatting
abuse of addictive opioid
drugs.
“I cannot vote for this
bill. I will fight it because I
know the difference between
compromise and extortion,”
said Warren, who some
mention as a potential 2020
presidential contender.
Warren’s comments came
with Democrats in the early
stages of decoding their lesson
from this month’s elections.
Hillary Clinton shockingly
lost her White House bid to
Republican Donald Trump
and Democrats remained
in the House and Senate
minority, making only small
gains in each chamber.
Warren is expected to
try tugging her party toward
more progressive policies,
while some more moderate
Democrats are emphasizing
the need to appeal to the type
of working-class white voters
who helped Trump win
Midwestern states carried in
recent elections by Demo-
crats.
The House plans to vote
on the research legislation
Wednesday, with Senate
consideration expected next
week.
The measure calls for
spending $6.3 billion over
the next decade, including
$4.8 billion for research
at the National Institutes
of Health. There is also $1
billion for grants to states for
drug abuse prevention and
research, and $500 million
for the Food and Drug
Administration to accelerate
drug and medical device
approval processes.
To pay for that, the bill
would cut a public health
fund in President Barack
Obama’s health care law,
reduce some payments
made by Medicaid and
Medicare and sell oil held in
the government’s strategic
petroleum reserve.
Warren said the bill bene-
fits a Republican donor who
backs contentious therapies
that are supposed to regen-
erate cells. She did not name
the donor during her speech
but said McConnell, R-Ky.,
has accepted contributions
from him.
A McConnell spokesman
declined to comment.
No. 2 Senate GOP leader
John Cornyn of Texas, on the
Senate floor as Warren spoke,
criticized her for making
“a political speech” and
launching “personal attacks”
on senators and called her
comments “beneath the
dignity of the United States
Senate.”
GENEVA (AP) — A
World Trade Organization
panel on Monday ruled that
Washington state offered
billions in illegal tax breaks
to plane maker Boeing, and
that the U.S. government
must take action to end the
plans within months.
The European Union,
which backs Boeing’s
EU-based rival, Airbus,
claimed it as a landmark
victory in the longstanding
battle between the two
companies that dominate the
global market for airplanes.
The ruling is but a part of
a wider squabble involving
accusations between the
U.S. government and the
AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, file
In this Oct. 24, 2016 photo, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.
speaks at a rally for Democratic presidential candidate
Hillary Clinton at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H.
28-nation EU over support
for Boeing and Airbus dating
back to 2004.
Monday’s decision found
that the support Washington
state promised to give
Boeing from 2024 to 2040
amounted to “prohibited”
subsidies. The support
offered by Washington came
on condition that Boeing
keeps the production of the
wings of the wide-bodied
777x plane in the state,
excluding foreign competi-
tion.
Boeing has extensive
plants around Seattle and the
EU says the subsidies would
have amounted to $8.7
billion. EU Trade Commis-
sioner Cecilia Malmstrom
said the WTO ruled against
$5.7 billion of the measures.
The case could have
some implications for Pres-
ident-elect Donald Trump’s
ambitions to support U.S.
business first and foremost.
Rejecting some of the EU
claims, the WTO found
that only one of seven tax
incentives provided by
Washington state amounted
to illegal subsidies for wings
for the wide-body jet. In
essence, the “prohibited
subsidy” involved the reduc-
tion of business tax rate on
the condition that the wings
were produced domestically
within the United States.
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