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...board at the Patent and Trademark Office, and defined criteria for such extensions in ways that tended to favor the drug companies. But that bill, quietly introduced by New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg, failed. This year the crusade has been more public: New Jersey's other Senator, Democrat Robert Torricelli, introduced the bill one day after the company gave $50,000 to the committee he chairs to help elect Democrats to the Senate. He says the timing was a coincidence...
...more than the Republicans do. They just want the issue." Especially now that Democrats are now raising just as much soft money as Republicans ?- and it constitutes a bigger portion of their annual fund-raising haul. So here?s a Congress 101 for you: When New Jersey Democrat Bob Torricelli says...
...lying. "Torricelli?s the head Democratic fund-raiser in the Senate," says Dickerson. "He doesn?t want this law. But if this thing starts to get close, you?re going to hear a lot of Democrats say very similar things: that stripped down, the bill suddenly doesn?t do enough...
...Senate run from New Jersey, where he and Ernestine had moved a few years before. He was a celebrity, but he didn't have strong ties to the state's Democratic Party. "Bill was always in the party but never of the party," says Senator Robert Torricelli, who succeeded him in 1996. "He did not come from the ranks. There was always a little distance." Instead, he built a network of outsiders--Princeton alumni, basketball stars, business leaders who'd been courtside at the Garden season after season. It's the same kind of network he has put together...
...political novice, now New Jersey's Governor. To many, Bradley seemed out of touch with his state, and he refused to denounce Governor Jim Florio for a series of tax increases that had cost Florio his popularity. "It was a peculiar political price for Bradley to pay," says Torricelli, "because loyalty to local leaders was not his reputation. He didn't understand the sensitivity to these taxes, and it almost ended a brilliant career...