The cancer of money in our politics is much deeper than just a handful of corrupt Democrats; they're also now blowing up President Biden's effort to put America back together and save American lives.

Want to know who owns your member of Congress? Just look at how they vote.

For example, this week Representatives Kurt Schrader (D-OR), Scott Peters (D-CA), Kathleen Rice (D-NY) and, on another committee, Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.) all voted with 100% of their Republican colleagues to kill the ability of Medicare to negotiate drug prices.

18/09/2021 Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Friday's Daily Stack

Article: "The Cancer Of Money in Our Politics Gives a "Thumbs-Up" for Big Pharma to Kill More Americans" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Comprehensive Plan for Addressing High Drug Prices: A Report in Response to the Executive Order on Competition in the American Economy" by HHS.

Article: "Support for Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Among Voters 65 and Older" by ARA.

Twitter: "Kathleen Rice".

Twitter: "Kurt Schrader".

Twitter: "Scott Peters".

Twitter: "Stephanie Murphy".

Book: "The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich" by Thom Hartmann..

Book: "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Doctor: high drug pricing kills patients" by Nicky J. Mehtani.

Article: "Nearly 18 Million US Adults Couldn't Afford a Prescription Medication This Year: Study" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Rep. Kurt Schrader of Oregon helps kill drug pricing bill, endangering Biden infrastructure plan" by Alan Fram, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar.

Article: "Chairman Sanders Statement on Medicare Drug Price Negotiation" by Senator Bernie Sanders.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010)

Quote: "It might also be added that corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires. Corporations help structure and facilitate the activities of human beings, to be sure, and their "personhood" often serves as a useful legal fiction. But they are not themselves members of "We the People" by whom and for whom our Constitution was established." - J Stevens.

Quote: "Politicians who fear that a certain corporation can make or break their reelection chances may be cowed into silence about that corporation. On a variety of levels, unregulated corporate electioneering might diminish the ability of citizens to "hold officials accountable to the people," ante, at 23, and disserve the goal of a public debate that is "uninhibited, robust, and wide-open," " - J Stevens<.

Article: "'A combination of failures:' why 3.6m pounds of nuclear waste is buried on a popular California beach" by Kate Mishkin.

Article: "Nuclear fuel rods along the sand dunes" by M B. Regan.

Video: Popular California Beach Nuked? (w/ Kevin Kamps).

Article: "San Onofre" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Kim Reynolds" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Iowa DOT says bridges considered to be in "poor" condition are still safe to drive on" by CBS2/Fox28.

Tweet: "Can anyone tell me why House Democrats are proud of their plan to raise the corporate tax rate from 21% to 26.5%?
Let me remind you that it was 35% under Obama.
This isn't progressive. Or impressive.
Dems need to do better." by Robert Reich.

Article: "Oregon Tax Rebate" by Oregon Wiki.

Article: "The Facebook Files" by Wall Street Journal.

Article: "Jaw-dropping moments in WSJ's bombshell Facebook investigation" by Allison Morrow.

Article: "Scoop: Biden bombs with Manchin" by Hans Nichols.

Youtube: "Senator Sheldon Whitehouse".

Youtube: "Rep. Katie Porter".

Quote: "Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You - ask what you can do for your country" - John F. Kennedy.

Article: "Smackdown: John F. Kennedy vs. Milton Friedman" by Mark J. Perry.

Article: "Law enforcement "taking no chances" on September 18 rally at U.S. Capitol" by Kris Van Cleave, Andres Triay, Michael Kaplan.

Article: "What's The Cost Of Regeneron CV-19 monoclonal antibody treatment?".

Article: "Regeneron says half its COVID-19 treatment doses are being sent to 4 low-vaccination states" by Peter Weber.

Article: "A Boy Went to a COVID-Swamped ER. He Waited for Hours. Then His Appendix Burst." by Jenny Deam.

Article: "Sarah Palin proudly declares herself a 'white common sense conservative'" by David Badash.

Hour Two: Conversations with Great Minds: Professor Adam Tooze - Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy
- Adam Tooze, Kathryn & Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History-Columbia University & Author of 7 books including, Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crisis Changed the World / His latest book is Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy

Article: "Trump team failed to follow NSC's pandemic playbook" by Dan Diamond, Nahal Toosi.

Article: "Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS, MERS-CoV)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Severe acute respiratory syndrome" (SARS, SARS-CoV-1) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Covid-19 Timeline".

Article: "Coronavirus: How the pandemic has changed the world economy" by Lora Jones, Daniele Palumbo & David Brown.

Article: "Impact of COVID-19 on people's livelihoods, their health and our food systems" by ILO, FAO, IFAD and WHO.

Article: "Treasury Securities Operational Details" by New York Fed.

Article: "Trump tweets and market volatility have a 'statistically significant' relationship, BofA finds" by Javier E. David.

Article: "Jair Bolsonaro" (Brazil) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Recep Tayyip Erdoğan" (Turkey) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Chernobyl disaster", 26 April 1986 by Wikipedia.

Article: "COVID-19 pandemic" by Wikipedia.

Article: "China confirms Wuhan virus can be spread by humans" by James Griffiths and Nectar Gan.

Article: "Intelligence report warned of coronavirus crisis as early as November: Sources" by Josh Margolin and James Gordon Meek.

Article: "US intelligence agencies started tracking coronavirus outbreak in China as early as November" by Zachary Cohen, Jim Sciutto, Alex Marquardt and Evan Perez.

Article: "California can't fight the fires ravaging its state because coronavirus is ravaging its prison system" by AJ Dellinger.

Article: "Programme budget 2020-2021" by WHO.

Article: "Financial crisis of 2007-08" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Anthropocene" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Green New Deal" (GND) by Wikipedia.

Article: "The term "Shesession" describes pandemic's effect on women" by FWBP.

Article: "Sarah Palin proudly declares herself a 'white common sense conservative'" by David Badash.

Article: "Trump gave six months extra Secret Service protection to his kids, three officials. It cost taxpayers $1.7 million" by David A. Fahrenthold and Carol D. Leonnig.

Article: "Seven dirty words" by Wikipedia.

Article: "California Recall Stokes Dem Fears of Latino Defection" by Caroline Downey.

Article: "2022 Arizona elections" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jaime Harrison" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Real Crime General Milley Exposed Laid Bare" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Gulf of Tonkin incident" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Letter to President Clinton on Iraq" by PNAC.

Documentary: The Silence of Others.

Article: "Biden administration moves to avoid shortages of Covid-19 monoclonal antibody treatments" by Arlette Saenz.

Article: "More Doctors Demand Payment Upfront" by s. e. smith.

Article: "Should You Ever Prepay a Hospital Bill?" by Donna Rosato.

Article: "2nd Amendment". A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Article: "Big Kentucky rally starring Pillow Man and Mike Flynn promised 10,000 attendees. It drew ... 300" by Aldous J Pennyfarthing.

Article: "Nuclear Industry: Germany urged to remove nuclear decommissioning hurdles to speed closures (May 2016)" by Northwatch.

Article: "How to build a nuclear warning for 10,000 years' time" by BBC.

Article: "Pence's Trump enabling was worse than we thought. Woodward and Costa's book proves it." by Kurt Bardella.

Article: "Constitution Day (United States)" (September 17, 1787) by Wikipedia.

Article: "First Amendment to the United States Constitution"

Bible: "Genesis 3:20" "And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living".

Video: Kathleen Hall Jamieson on Constitution Day Civics Survey.

Article: "Triskaidekaphobia" by Wikipedia.

Article: "American Flag - Understanding the Parts of the US Flag" by Fine Line Flag.

Article: "Esther" by Wikipedia.

Coming up Monday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

I'll be debating Dr. Bruce Gilley, Professor Political Science, Portland State University & Author of the new book, The Last Imperialist: Sir Alan Burns's Epic Defense of the British Empire

Plus, Stop Direct Contracting Entities From Handing Medicare to Wall Street!!! I'll be talking with Dr. Ana Malinow, Professor of Pediatrics - University of California-San Francisco & former President- Physicians for a National Health Program

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