US Senator Bill Frist (R-TN)
Former US Senator Bill Frist (R-TN) was the majority leader of the US Senate from 2003-2007. He was the subject of an 18-month investigation by the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) for possible insider trading but was cleared of any wrongdoing.
Republican Leadership Legal Woes
Blog Post: Saturday 19 November 2005. The Washington Post reports that Public Citizen has made "new inquiries" into the finances of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN).
Blog Post: Saturday 19 November 2005. The Washington Post reports that Public Citizen has made "new inquiries" into the finances of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN).
Frist Stock Sale Timeline
The investigation into Sen. Bill Frist's (R-TN) sale of HCA stock -- and his assertion that the sale was to prevent the appearance of a conflict of interest -- takes on a new appearnance when viewed in the context of time.
The investigation into Sen. Bill Frist's (R-TN) sale of HCA stock -- and his assertion that the sale was to prevent the appearance of a conflict of interest -- takes on a new appearnance when viewed in the context of time.
SEC Examining Frist Stock Sale
Blog Post: 25 Sept 2005 On Saturday, the AP reported that the Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating a stock transaction that Sen. Bill Frist (R-TN) made this summer. MSNBC reports he is also under investigation by the US attorney for the Southern District of New York...
Blog Post: 25 Sept 2005 On Saturday, the AP reported that the Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating a stock transaction that Sen. Bill Frist (R-TN) made this summer. MSNBC reports he is also under investigation by the US attorney for the Southern District of New York...
Stem-Cell Debate Takes a Detour?
Blog Post: 22 Aug 2005 Over the weekend, the journal of Science released research from Harvard showing that scientists have turned ordinary skin cells into embryonic stem cells. If this process can be replicated, and if it technical barriers can be overcome to produce useful stem cells...
Blog Post: 22 Aug 2005 Over the weekend, the journal of Science released research from Harvard showing that scientists have turned ordinary skin cells into embryonic stem cells. If this process can be replicated, and if it technical barriers can be overcome to produce useful stem cells...
Frist's Blind Trust
Blog Post: 21 Sept 2005 nsider trading? Talking Points Memo has a thread going about blind trusts, a topic launched by the timing of the sale of shares of HCA in a blind trust held for Sen. Bill Frist (R-TN). Two weeks before the stock in his family hospital dropped 15 percent due to poor financials, Frist "instructed the trustee managing the assets to sell his HCA shares"...
Blog Post: 21 Sept 2005 nsider trading? Talking Points Memo has a thread going about blind trusts, a topic launched by the timing of the sale of shares of HCA in a blind trust held for Sen. Bill Frist (R-TN). Two weeks before the stock in his family hospital dropped 15 percent due to poor financials, Frist "instructed the trustee managing the assets to sell his HCA shares"...
Frist Supports Stem Cell Research
Blog Post: 29 July 2005 Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) endorsed a House-passed bill (HR 810 PCS) Friday which would expand federal financing for embryonic cell research...
Blog Post: 29 July 2005 Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) endorsed a House-passed bill (HR 810 PCS) Friday which would expand federal financing for embryonic cell research...
Bi-Partisan Group Defuses Nuclear Option
Blog Post: 23 May 2005 Fourteen "centrist" Senators -- seven from each party -- have made public a compromise agreement that will allow confirmation votes to move forward on Priscilla Owen, Janice Rogers Brown and William Pryor (all nominated to appellate courts)...
Blog Post: 23 May 2005 Fourteen "centrist" Senators -- seven from each party -- have made public a compromise agreement that will allow confirmation votes to move forward on Priscilla Owen, Janice Rogers Brown and William Pryor (all nominated to appellate courts)...
More Political Drama in the Schiavo Case
Reuters reports that state Circuit Judge Greer -- who has managed the Terri Schiavo case since the beginning in 1998 -- ruled that the a petition by the Jeb Bush's Executive branch (Department of Children and Families) to assume custody appeared to be only "for the purpose of circumventing the court's final judgment."...
Reuters reports that state Circuit Judge Greer -- who has managed the Terri Schiavo case since the beginning in 1998 -- ruled that the a petition by the Jeb Bush's Executive branch (Department of Children and Families) to assume custody appeared to be only "for the purpose of circumventing the court's final judgment."...
Video-Tape Medicine
Blog Post: 22 March 2005 One Senator and several Representatives who once practiced medicine have arrogantly asserted -- based on their viewing of videotapes and anecdotal discussions with family and an unnamed neurologist -- that Terri Schiavo...
Blog Post: 22 March 2005 One Senator and several Representatives who once practiced medicine have arrogantly asserted -- based on their viewing of videotapes and anecdotal discussions with family and an unnamed neurologist -- that Terri Schiavo...
Editorial Boards Weigh In on Palm Sunday Action
Blog Post: 22 March 2005 Some newspapers, like the Washington Post, had editorialized against Congressional intervention in a state judicial matter long before Palm Sunday. Others joined the chorus after the fat lady sang. The rhetoric -- from red states, not just blue states -- is pointed...
Blog Post: 22 March 2005 Some newspapers, like the Washington Post, had editorialized against Congressional intervention in a state judicial matter long before Palm Sunday. Others joined the chorus after the fat lady sang. The rhetoric -- from red states, not just blue states -- is pointed...