Nancy Pelosi’s biotech earmarks
(UPDATED: See below.)
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi apparently has a warm place in her heart for two San Francisco life-science companies. Buried inside a story on how the Democrat-led Congress seems almost as enthusiastic as its scandal-ridden Republican predecessor about “earmarks” that direct federal money to projects favored by individual legislators, Bloomberg News notes that two of fifteen earmarks Pelosi inserted in a defense-funding measure steer millions of dollars to Prosetta, a Mission Bay biotech, and Bioquiddity,… Continue Reading