Throw Them All Out

28 William J. Hunter and Michael A. Nelson, 'Tax Enforcement: A Public Choice Perspective,' Public Choice, no. 82, 1995.

29 Maria C. Correia, 'Political Connections, SEC Enforcement and Accounting Quality,' Rock Center for Corporate Governance, Working Paper No. 61, July 2009.

30 Frank Yu and Xiaoyun Yu, 'Corporate Lobbying and Fraud Detection,' Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, forthcoming.

31 R. Patrick Rawls and David N. Laband, 'A Public Choice Analysis of Endangered Species Listings,' Public Choice, no. 121, 2004.

32 John R. Gist and R. Carter Hill, 'The Economics of Choice in the Allocation of Federal Grants: An Empirical Test,' Public Choice, no. 36, 1981.

33 http://voices.washingtonpost.com/local-breaking-news/dc/7-of-10-richest-counties-in-dc.html.

1. THE DRUG TRADE

1 Tom Daschle and David Nather, Getting It Done: How Obama and Congress Finally Broke the Stalemate to Make Way for Health Care Reform (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2010) , p. 11.

2 John Kerry, Financial Disclosure, 2011 and previous years.

3 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/health/policy/06insure.html.

4 John Kerry, Financial Disclosure, 2009, Schedule IV—Transactions.

5 Daschle and Nather, Getting It Done, pp. 178, 226.

6 Melissa L. Bean, Financial Disclosure, 2009.

7 Jared Polis, Financial Disclosure, 2009.

8 http://www.medicaltourismmag.com/newsletter/48/medical-tourism-expands-as-alternative-to- obamacare.html.

9 http://www.bridgehealthmedical.com/about-us/media- room/coverage/Company_cuts_medical_costs_by_sending_patients_to_US_hospitals_not_overseas.

10 Andrew Pollack, 'Critics Say 12 Years Is Too Long to Protect Biotech Drugs from Generics,' New York Times blog, Prescriptions: The Business of Health Care, October 15, 2009.

11 Richard Gayle, 'Healthcare Reform Gave Biotech Everything It Wanted, and More,' http://www.xconomy.com, March 24, 2010.

12 'Factbox: Winners, Losers, in House Healthcare Bill,' Reuters, March 22, 2010, and Vanessa Fuhrmans, 'Tax on High-End Health Plans Threatens Wider Group,' Wall Street Journal, August 10, 2009.

13 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9400E5D91331F935A25756C0A9619C8B63.

14 Johnny Isakson, Financial Disclosure, 2007, and Sheldon Whitehouse, Financial Disclosure, 2007.

15 James Sensenbrenner, Financial Disclosure, 2003.

16 James Oberstar, Financial Disclosure, 2003.

17 Jeb Bradley, Financial Disclosure, 2003.

18 John Kerry, Financial Disclosure, 2003.

19 John Kerry, Financial Disclosure, 2005, which reports on his capital gains for 2004.

20 John Kerry, Financial Disclosure, 2004, Part IV—Transactions.

21 John Kerry, Financial Disclosure, 2003.

22 Max Baucus, Financial Disclosure, 2010, Part IV—Transactions.

23 John Boehner, Financial Disclosure, 2009.

24 http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/12/the_death_of_the_public_option.html.

25 http://ipo.nasdaq.com/edgar_conv_html/2006/02/10/0000812796-06-000010.html.

26 Jim McDermott, Financial Disclosure, 2004, 2005.

27 Amo Houghton, Financial Disclosure Statement, 2005, Addendum, stock transactions with Market Street Trust Company.

28 Amo Houghton, Financial Disclosure, 2003.

2. CRISIS FOR ALL, OPPORTUNITY FOR SOME

1 'President Bush Discusses Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008,' FDCH Regulatory Intelligence Database, October 3, 2008.

2 Spencer Bachus, 'Confronting the Crisis,' National Mortgage News, February 2, 2009.

3 Henry M. Paulson, Jr., On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System (New York: Business Plus, 2010), pp. 13, 153, 220, 296, 299.

4 The VIX is an index that measures the implied volatility of Standard and Poor's 500 index options. Between 1990 and September 2008, the VIX averaged 19. By the end of October 2008, at the height of the crisis, it reached a high of 89.

5 Bachus, 'Confronting the Crisis.'

6 'End of Illusions,' Economist, July 17, 2008.

7 Paulson, On the Brink, p. 153.

8 Spencer Bachus, Financial Disclosure, 2009.

9 http://financialservices.house.gov/press/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=1684, and 'FASB Delays Rule Affecting $10.5 Trillion in Bonds,' National Mortgage News, August 21, 2008.

10 Paulson, On the Brink, p. 259.

11 Paulson, On the Brink, p. 260.

12 Paulson, On the Brink, p. 172.

13 Spencer Bachus, Financial Disclosure, 2009.

14 'Lead Financial Services Lawmaker Defends Trading,' USA Today, September 23, 2008.

15 Paulson, On the Brink, p. 241.

16 James Moran, Financial Disclosure, 2009.

17 Shelley Capito, Financial Disclosure, 2008.

18 Richard Durbin, Financial Disclosure, 2009.

19 John Kerry, Financial Disclosure, 2008.

20 Rahm Emanuel, Financial Disclosure, 2003.

21 Alex J. Pollock, 'GSE Reform on the Way,' National Mortgage News, November 15, 2004.

22 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/11/AR2008091102841.html, and Marc Hochstein, 'U.S. Senator Is Urging Fannie, Freddie into the Subprime Market,' American Banker, July 9, 1999.

23 John Kerry, Financial Disclosure, 2005.

24 Stephen Taub, 'Global Blackout: Fannie Mae Freezes Employee Stock Sales,' Compliance Week, May 24, 2005.

25 John Kerry, Financial Disclosure, 2006.

26 http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/06/11/1962038.aspx.

3. IPOs: INVEST IN POLITICIANS OFTEN

1 Nancy Pelosi, Financial Disclosure, 2008.

2 'Visa Inc's $16 Billion IPO Oversubscribed, Analysts Say,' MarketWatch.com, March 13, 2008.

3 National Retail Federation, nrf.com/swipefees.

4 'Fierce Fight Expected If Interchange Bill Reaches House Floor,' CardLine, July 25, 2008.

5 'Congressmen Conyers and Cannon Introduce 'Credit Card Fair Fee Act,'' CardLine, July 18, 2008.

6 'And a Survey Says Most Americans Support the Act,' CardLine, July 18,