In response to public pressure from CREW, a citizens'-advocacy group, President Obama's White House Counsel has just released a letter (the full-text full PDF file), listing March 24, 2009 and May 11, 2009 visits by Merck CEO Dick Clark. CREW, for its part, reiterated tonight that it will continue to seek the full-text of all White House (and Vice Presidential residence) visitor logs on the topic.
The letter released tonight also lists all of Billy Tauzin's [imaged, at right] visits, as President of PhRMA, and his in-person contacts -- at the White House, presumably all on health care reform initiatives, per Sharon Theimer, for the AP Newswires:
. . . .lobbyist Billy Tauzin, a former Louisiana congressman who heads the drug industry lobby, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America [PhRMA]. . . . went to the White House on March 5, the day of a summit on health care, and again on May 11, 19, June 2 and June 24, 2009. . . .
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