Bill Frist/Articles and Commentary

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2001

• Jessica Reaves, "Person of the Week: Bill Frist," TIME, July 19, 2001: "For making a difficult decision on stem cell research, and simultaneously making the President's decision just a little bit easier, Senator Bill Frist is our Person of the Week."

2002

• "Bill Frist. MIA," National Review Online, December 18, 2002.
• "Frist, a surgeon, in running for GOP leader," CNN, December 20, 2002: "Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tennessee, seen as a likely successor to Sen. Trent Lott as Senate majority leader, is the first sitting senator since 1928 to be a practicing surgeon."
• "Senate Majority Leader Hopeful Bill Frist. Prescription For Health-Care Campaign Contributors' Policy Paybacks," TomPaine.com, December 20, 2002.
• Joseph Farah, "Meet Bill Frist - heir to Lott throne. Senator championed confirmation of pro-abortion David Satcher, fights fat," WorldNetDaily, December 20, 2002: "While Satcher's nomination was widely presumed to have originated with Vice President Al Gore, like Satcher, a Tennessean, his confirmation was actually championed by Frist."
• David Firestone, "Leadership in Recapturing the Senate Pushed Frist Into Spotlight," New York Times, December 21, 2002.
• Terence P. Jeffrey, "Frist a Major Share-Holder in Reputed For-Profit Abortion Provider," Human Events Online, December 23, 2002.
• Steven Weiss, "Buying Loyalty: Bill Frist Has Relied on Money as Much as Charm to Make Political Friends," OpenSecrets, December 23, 2002.
• Gloria Feldt, Statement: "Bill Frist Gets an 'F' on Reproductive Rights, Marches in Lockstep with the Bush administration," Planned Parenthood Federation of America, December 23, 2002.

2003

• Doug Ireland, "The Bad Doctor. Bill Frist's long record of corporate vices," LA Weekly, January 10-16, 2003.
• Gwen Ifill, Interview with Senator Bill Frist, PBS Online NewsHour, January 22, 2003.
• Timothy Noah, Whopper of the Week: Sen. Bill Frist: "They don't teach arithmetic in medical school," Slate, January 23, 2003: "'I can tell you as a physician who has been in the operating room for thousands of days and hundreds of thousands of hours ...'" --Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist on NBC's Meet the Press, Jan. 12. ... "Discussion. Let's assume that Frist has been in an operating room 12 hours a day, every day, starting in September 1974 (which is the earliest he could have entered medical school). Frist wouldn't hit 200,000 hours (the minimum implied by 'hundreds of thousands of hours') until January 2020. Indeed, Frist wouldn't have hit 100,000 until 1997, by which time he had held the (very time-consuming) job of U.S. senator for two years. Sure hope Frist's better at counting votes!"
• "Bill Frist, Heal Thyself," and (9 January 2003): "'Good Doctor' Frist is a Corporate Crook," democrats.com, January 24, 2003.
• David Brooks, "Bill Frist's New South. The revenge of the patricians," The Weekly Standard, January 27, 2003.
• "Frist backs constitutional ban on gay marriage," Associated Press, June 29, 2003.
• Transcript: Sen. Bill Frist on 'Fox News Sunday'," Fox News, October 26, 2003.
• "Yet Another Example of Bill Frist's Hypocrisy," rlrr.drum-corps.net, November 29, 2003.

2004

• Christopher Hayes, "Sins of the Fathers," In These Times, February 13, 2004: "Several weeks ago a curious title popped up on Amazon.com. Good People Beget Good People: A Genealogy of the Frist Family. The Frists are aristocratic Southerners whose favorite son, Dr. Bill, is a senator from Tennessee and the Republican Majority Leader. While the book's title has provided fodder for left-wing satire, it speaks volumes about our times that the senator would attach his name to such a naked assertion of inherited virtue."
• Alexander Bolton, "Roberts contradicts Frist on Clarke," The Hill, April 14, 2004.
• Text: Remarks by Sen. Frist to the Republican National Convention, FDCH E-Media, Inc., posted by Washington Post, August 31, 2004.

2005

• Harold Meyerson, "Target of Opportunism," Washington Post, March 23, 2005.
• Sarah Posner, "Frist and Ethics," The Gadflyer, March 25, 2005: "Now that Bill Frist has deemed himself sufficiently expert in neurology to conclude that Terri Schiavo could have been misdiagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state, ..."
• "Sen. Bill Frist's Balancing Act," U.S. News & World Report, April 4, 2005.
• Charles Babington, "Frist Urges End to Nominee Filibusters," Washington Post, April 25, 2005.
• Rob Garver, "Frist Plays it Cool," The American Prospect, April 25, 2005.
• Max Blumenthal, "Justice Sunday Preachers," The Nation, April 26, 2005.
• Robert F., "Deadly immunity. When a study revealed that mercury in childhood vaccines may have caused autism in thousands of kids, the government rushed to conceal the data -- and to prevent parents from suing drug companies for their role in the epidemic," Salon, June 16, 2005. Also see related The Homeland and Lilly Protection Act.
• "Frist Lies to Matt Lauer," Think Progress, June 16, 2005.
• "The Daily Show gets Everbody," Crooks and Liars, June 17, 2005: "Jon Stewart exposes Bill Frist as he lies about the Schiavo case, Bush, Sensenbrenner, the Patriot act, and Gitmo."
• Ceci Connolly, "Frist Again at the Center of Stem Cell Fight," Washington Post, July 3, 2005.
• Rob Moll, "We thought Frist was one of us," Christianity Today, July 29, 2005.
• Ceci Connolly, "Frist Breaks with Bush on Stem Cell Research," Washington Post, July 30, 2005.
• Eric Cohen and William Kristol, "Frist's Stem Cell Capitulation," The Weekley Standard, August 8, 2005.
• Thomas B. Edsall, "Possible Frist '08 Bid Splits Religious Right," Washington Post, August 16, 2005.
• Jeffrey H. Birnbaum and R. Jeffrey Smith, "SEC, Justice Investigate Stock Sale," Washington Post, September 24, 2005.
• Jason Leopold, "Bill Frist, The Former 2008 Presidential Candidate," Common Dreams, September 28, 2005.
• Stephen Dinan, "Frist to Take on Border Bill First," Washington Times, October 14, 2005.
• Jeffrey H. Birnbaum, "Letters Show Frist Notified of Stocks in 'Blind Trust'," Washington Post, October 24, 2005.
• Todd Pack, "Frist's Action in Senate Helps Family Owned Business," The Nashville Tennessean, December 4, 2005.
• "Frist's Votes Found to Favor HCA," Associated Press, December 5, 2005.
• "Frist Fans Public Fears of Avian Flu to Ram Through Sweeping Liability Shield for the Drug Industry,. Bill Would Leave Injured Consumers to Fend for Themselves While Industry Gets a Free Ride," Public Citizen, December 8, 2005.
• "Bill Frist: 'No Earthly Idea," Crooks and Liars, December 11, 2005.
• Judd, "'No Earthly Idea': Frist Continues To Mislead on Stock Sale," Think Progress, December 11, 2005.
• Jonathan Singer, "Frist Still Under Investigators' Watch," MyDD, December 12, 2005.
• Jonathan M. Katz and John Solomon, "Frist AIDS Charity Paid Consultants," Associated Press (Yahoo! News), December 17, 2005.
• "Frist’s Backroom Coup Is a Shot in the Arm for Drug Industry, a Slap in the Face of Consumers. 11th Hour Conference Report Rider Bars Compensation for the Injured and Absolves Reckless, Negligent Drug Companies of Responsibility," Public Citizen, December 20, 2006.
• Sheryl Gay Stolberg, "Legal Shield for Vaccine Makers Is Inserted Into Military Bill," New York Times, December 20, 2005.
• John Stanton, "Frist, Hastert Aid Vaccine Companies," Roll Call, December 20, 2005 (subscription required).

2006

• "Protection For Vaccine Companies Under Bill Provision," Lawcore.com, January 10, 2006.
• Bill Theobald, "Hastert, Frist said to rig bill for drug firms. Frist denies protection was added in secret," Gannett News Service (The Daily Tennessean), February 9, 2006.
• Ed Henry, "Frist Plans June Vote on Gay Marriage," CNN, February 13, 2006.
• Bill Theobald, "Frist a frequent flier on drug companies' jets. Lawmakers don't pay full charter costs," Gannett News Service (The Daily Tennessean), March 9, 2006.
• Nancy Zuckerbrod, "Frist Hints Strongly at White House Run," Associated Press, March 30, 2006.
• John Dickerson, "Bill Frist Learns to Pander," Slate, March 30, 2006.
• "Frist Fires First Shot on Immigration," CNN, March 31, 2006.
• Joe Klein, "Prognosis Looks Grim, Doc," TIME Magazine, April 1, 2006.
• Lewis Seiler and Dan Hamburg, "Poisoning Our Children," San Francisco Chronicle (Common Dreams), April 10, 2006.
• "Willful Misconduct: How Bill Frist and the Drug Lobby Covertly Bagged a Liability Shield," Public Citizen Congress Watch Report, May 2006.
• Judd Legum, "Frist on High Gas Prices: It’s Clinton’s Fault," Think Progress, May 2, 2006.
• Bill Theobald, "Vaccine makers helped write Frist-backed shield law. E-mails reveal private meetings," Gannett News Service (The Daily Tennessean), May 8, 2006; truthout.
• Judd Legum, "Frist and Hastert Let Vaccine Industry Write Its Own Multi-Billion Dollar Giveaway," Think Progress, May 8, 2006.
• Press Release: "Drug Industry, Sen. Frist and the White House Conspired to Obtain Broad Liability Shield for Lawsuits Related to Pandemic Illnesses," NewsTarget.com, May 9, 2006.
• "FEC finds Frist violated law by failing to disclose $1.4 million personal loan," The Raw Story, June 1, 2006.
• Andrew Ross Sorkin, "Frists taking HCA private in major deal," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 24, 2006.
• "HCA Agrees to $21.3 Bln Buyout by Bain, KKR, Merrill (Update2)," Bloomberg, July 24, 2006.
• "Key Events Throughout HCA's History," Associated Press (Money Central MSN.com), July 24, 2006.
• Nancy Zuckerbrod, "Frist Fails to Disclose Foundation Role," Associated Press, July 31, 2006.
• Tony Allen-Mills, "Washington hit by curse of the kid bloggers," The Sunday Times Online (UK), August 27, 2006.
• Nancy Zuckerbrod, "Frist Medical License Renewal Questioned," Associated Press (Forbes), August 29, 2006.
• “Frist Expected to Get Medical Board Fine,” AP (delivered by the New York Times), August 31, 2006.
• Nancy Zuckerbrod, "Frist Targets Internet Gambling," Associated Press (Washington Post), September 13, 2006: Frist is "trying use a bill authorizing U.S. military operations, including in Iraq and Afghanistan, to prohibit people from using credit cards to settle Internet gambling debts."
• "CREW releases second annual most corrupt members of Congress report," Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, September 20, 2006.
• "Frist to GOP Hopefuls: Don't Stress Iraq. Sen. Frist says Republican candidates should turn their focus away from Iraq," Associated Press (CBS News), October 25, 2006.
• Nico Pitney, "Frist’s Post-Election Revelation: We Are ‘Not Winning’ In Iraq," Think Progress, November 14, 2006. re stay the course

2007

• Richard Powelson, "Former Sen. Frist cleared in stock probe," ScrippsNews, April 27, 2007.
• Tristero, "My Cool New Job," Hullabaloo, May 25, 2007. re Frist as next World Bank president

Articles by Frist

• "Tax Cuts Make Money," USA Today, February 20, 2006.

Reports and Press Releases

• "Health Organizations and AIDS Organizations Denounce Sen. Frist's Inaccurate and Harmful Comments about HIV Transmission, Condom Effectiveness," PlanetWire.org.
• H.R.2863 for the 109th Congress, Thomas/Library of Congress.