How Biotech Legislation Plays Back Home

Lawmakers reaped health lobby dollars, The News & Observer

Drug makers, insurance companies and health providers have chosen carefully in deciding where to put their campaign dollars in North Carolina. North Carolina's lawmakers in Washington have received millions of dollars from health-related companies in the past three campaigns, according to a new analysis by Democracy North Carolina, a government watchdog group.

Top among them: Sen. Richard Burr, a Winston-Salem Republican and a member of the Senate health committee who has submitted his own legislation for health reform.