{"id":523136,"date":"2021-12-31T15:18:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T20:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=523136"},"modified":"2021-12-31T15:19:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T20:19:05","slug":"top-mitch-mcconnell-staffer-leads-pfizers-lobbying-charge-to-protect-vaccine-patent-and-block-bill-holding-big-pharma-accountable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=523136","title":{"rendered":"Top Mitch McConnell Staffer Leads Pfizer\u2019s Lobbying Charge to Protect Vaccine Patent and Block Bill Holding Big Pharma Accountable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Pfizer has <a href=\"https:\/\/lda.senate.gov\/filings\/public\/filing\/36379c31-fa0e-408c-b3eb-8918f279216c\/print\/\">hired<\/a>\u00a0the former policy director for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Hazen Marshall, as a lobbyist to support the Big Pharma firm\u2019s efforts to shut down amendments to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lda.senate.gov\/filings\/public\/filing\/36379c31-fa0e-408c-b3eb-8918f279216c\/print\/\">False Claims Amendments Act of 2021.<\/a>\u00a0The lobbying contract covers opposition to whistleblower protections and affirming Pfizer\u2019s patents on the COVID-19 vaccine, The National Pulse can reveal.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/2021\/12\/30\/exclusive-top-mitch-mcconnell-staffer-leads-pfizers-lobbying-charge-to-protect-vaccine-patent-and-block-bill-holding-big-pharma-accountable-for-fraud\/\">https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/2021\/12\/30\/exclusive-top-mitch-mcconnell-staffer-leads-pfizers-lobbying-charge-to-protect-vaccine-patent-and-block-bill-holding-big-pharma-accountable-for-fraud\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pfizer has hired\u00a0the former policy director for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Hazen Marshall, as a lobbyist to support the Big Pharma firm\u2019s efforts to shut down amendments to the\u00a0False Claims Amendments Act of 2021.\u00a0The lobbying contract covers opposition to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=523136\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=523136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=523136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=523136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=523136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}