Daschle lobby ties bump Obama vow

Barack Obama’s expected pick of former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle to be secretary of health and human services bumps up against the president-elect’s pledge to rid the White House of special interests.

The former Democratic senator from South Dakota is a special policy adviser for the lobbying law firm Alston & Bird. And in his three years there, the firm has earned more than $16 million representing some of the health care industry’s most powerful interests before the department he’s in line to lead...

[I.e., DHHS {Dept. of Health and Human Safety} is the department which contains the agency that regulates food and drugs - aka; FDA. no conflict of interest here - move along...]

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