Billy Tauzin Biography

Billy Tauzin is a politician lawyer and lobbyist. Of Cajun descent he was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1972-1979 and the United States House of Representatives from 1980-2005 representing Louisiana's 3rd congressional district. In 1994 when the Democrats lost control of the House Tauzin helped co-found the House Blue Dog Coalition a group of moderate-to-conservative Democrats. Still considering conservatives unwelcome in the Democratic party however in 1995 Tauzin became a Republican and the first American to have been part of the leadership of both parties in the House. From 2001-2004 Tauzin served as chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee. In 2005 the same day he left Congress and two months after having helped to pass the Medicare Prescription Drug Bill Tauzin was named director of Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America or PhRMA a trade group for pharmaceutical companies. Billy Tauzin is the original author of the Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1996 and the Cable Act the only bills over the past ten years to become law despite Presidential veto. He received his BA from Nicholls State University in 1964 and his degree in law from Louisiana State University in 1967. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors for the Louisiana Healthcare Group.
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