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Catching up: After PhRMA, Tauzin launches lobbying firm with son

Leaves associations for entrepreneurial venture; expected to testify for House panels on group’s health care deals with Obama By Drew FitzGeraldMost trade group executives, no matter how well connected, might find it daunting to jump from the laser-like focus on one industry into the sea of independent lobbying, with its multiple and varied clients. Tauzin Then again, Billy Tauzin is not your average executive. The well-known former Republican U.S. representative from Louisiana regularly made headlines after he left the House and moved to the helm of Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America in 2005. Near the end of his tenure, PhRMA brokered a… Read More