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Senate rules referee weakens Dem drug plan in economic bill

Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., center, and Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., left, step out of the Senate Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., waits for an elevator on Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) Senate Republican Whip John Thune, R-S.D., second from left, speaks with reporters outside his office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) FILE - In this June 15, 2018, file photo, pharmaceuticals are seen in North Andover, Mass. The Senate parliamentarian on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022, dealt a blow to Democrats’ plan for curbing drug prices but left the rest of their sprawling economic bill largely intact as party leaders prepared for first votes on a package containing many of President Joe Biden's top domestic goals. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, file) Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., walks to his office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) FILE - Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., speaks during a news conference Friday, Aug. 5, 2022, at the Capitol Hill in Washington. The Senate parliamentarian narrowed Democrats' plan for curbing drug prices but left it largely unscathed Saturday, Democrats said, as party leaders prepared to start moving their sprawling economic bill through the chamber. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File) FILE - Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., arrives for a meeting of the Senate Homeland Security Committee at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022. Sen. Joe Manchin sealed the deal reviving President Joe Biden’s big economic, health care and climate bill. But it was Sinema who intently, quietly and deliberately shaped the final product. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Senate rules referee weakens Dem drug plan in economic bill