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Senate parliamentarian OKs most of Dems’ drug price controls

FILE - In this June 15, 2018, file photo, pharmaceuticals are seen in North Andover, Mass. The Senate parliamentarian narrowed Democrats' plan for curbing drug prices but left it largely unscathed Saturday, Aug. 2, 2022, Democrats said, as party leaders prepared to start moving their sprawling economic bill through the chamber. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, file)

FILE - Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks with reporters following a closed-door caucus lunch, at the Capitol in Washington, July 19, 2022. A chorus of Republicans say Democrats' economic package focused on climate and health care would be widely damaging. McConnell calls it “a giant package of huge new job-killing tax hikes, Green New Deal craziness that will kill American energy, and prescription drug socialism that will leave us with fewer new life-saving medicines." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Senate parliamentarian OKs most of Dems’ drug price controls