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DODD-KENNEDY HEALTH-CARE BILL NEWS: Dodd?s wife serves on health care company boards. ?The wife of?

By Glenn Reynolds

DODD-KENNEDY HEALTH-CARE BILL NEWS: Dodd’s wife serves on health care company boards. “The wife of a senator playing a lead role on a national health care overhaul sits on the boards of four health care companies, one of several examples of lawmakers with ties to the medical industry. Jackie Clegg Dodd, wife of Sen. Chris Dodd, serves on the boards of Javelin Pharmaceuticals Inc., Cardiome Pharma Corp., Brookdale Senior Living, and Pear Tree Pharmaceuticals, a financial disclosure report the senator released Friday shows. . . . Dodd, who as Senate Banking Committee chairman also has been an architect of the nation’s financial industry and housing rescue plans, did not file a new disclosure report outlining his personal finances as most other senators did in May. The Senate was releasing those reports Friday. Dodd sought a 90-day extension to file his report covering last year, giving him until mid-August to submit his report, but released his report Friday to The Associated Press.”

It’s like he was trying to keep this under the radar until after the bill was done.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on June 12, 2009 (boomark / email).