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Sherrod Brown: “I saw that article. I like Tom Scully. He came to our committee and he spoke. He is a reasonable, decent guy. I do not…”

On the recordDecember 8, 2003
I saw that article. I like Tom Scully. He came to our committee and he spoke. He is a reasonable, decent guy. I do not accuse him of anything untoward. I do wonder about a system, though, where he announced several months ago he was leaving the Department and going into the private sector. And he intimated, he may have said more specifically, that he would be out doing Medicare-type work, but he stays in the Department during the 6 months he is negotiating with various law firms and Wall Street firms, I believe, his future job and then the Medicare prescription drug bill is in the conference committee and he is in these meetings. Somebody gave him a waiver. I do not quite know what a waiver means.
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Sherrod Brown
Democratic · Ohio

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Discussing concerns about Tom Scully's transition from public service to the private sector during Medicare negotiations.

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