Word: solvay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sources: American Heart Association; FDA, Solvay Pharmaceuticals; National Cancer Institute...
...buttonholes his way to political profit. In the last Congress Gingrich introduced three bills to suspend duties on drug ingredients imported by Solvay Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of a large Belgian company based in his Georgia district. In January 1994 Solvay contributed $30,000 to the foundation. In mid-1994, Gingrich pressed the FDA to speed the approval of a drug manufactured by Solvay. Last September Gingrich lobbied the White House and the FDA on behalf of Direct Access Diagnostics, a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary that was seeking approval for a home test kit to detect the AIDS virus. Soon after, Direct...
...defuse criticism of the foundation, Eisenach has released a list of donors. Apart from Johnson & Johnson, Health South and Solvay, it includes such pharmaceutical companies as Searle, Glaxo, Genzyme and Burroughs Wellcome, as well as AT&T, Turner Broadcasting and Lockheed. All are under federal regulation or have contracts with the government--and are thus barred from contributing directly to political campaigns. The foundation has not indicated the amounts each corporation has contributed. The foundation, which is tax exempt, officially nonpartisan and not subject to federal election laws, can receive unlimited amounts of money from donors and is not bound...
...foundation, but a spokesman said that an average gift in 1993-94 amounted to $17,625. In the other case, Gingrich and Rep. Cass Ballenger (R-N.C.) wrote FDA Commissioner David Kessler on July 22 to question why the agency had not approved a new drug made by Solvay Pharmaceuticals for obsessive compulsive disorder. The company is also one of the foundation's donors...