Tom Maguire
2008-03-14 13:04:15
Exhaustively researched. FWIW (OK, not much) I had pounced on the activist Iowa mom connection early (this story has lots of background).
And a bonus connection you missed – in 2002 the Administration, or Dick Armey, or someone put a provision in a Homeland Security bill shielding Eli Lily from thimerosal lawsuits.
A Dem attempt to strip this amendment failed 51-48, but McCain was the lone Republican voting with the Dems. That said, McCain may have objected to the earmark character of the amendment, rather than the specific content.
