GOP Wants More Expensive Prescription Drugs

Bloomberg:

Republicans are gloating because Democrats haven't managed to get final congressional approval for any of the initiatives the party set as first-round legislative goals this year. ``They are zero and seven in '07,'' said Mississippi's Trent Lott, the Senate's second-ranking Republican. ``They have achieved nothing.''

Democrats, with only a 51-49 Senate majority, are still trying to pass measures that expand embryonic stem-cell research, overhaul immigration laws and allow the government to negotiate lower Medicare drug prices. ``We're going to tangle them up unmercifully'' on drug prices, said Lott, 65.