| December 17, 2006 | - It was revealed that Senator
Bill Frist's
AIDS charity had paid almost a half-million dollars in consulting fees to Frist's political friends.
| Source:
CBS News
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| November 1, 2005 | -
Democratic leaders called for a closed session on the Senate floor, which they used to force the creation of a bipartisan committee; the committee will report on the ongoing Congressional investigation (which the Democratic leadership believes is being purposefully delayed) into the Bush Administration's misuse of intelligence to justify the war in Iraq. “They have no convictions,” Senator Bill Frist said of the Democrats. “They have no principles. They have no ideas.”
| Source:
CNN.com
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| October 24, 2005 | - It was reported that in 2003 Senator
Bill Frist was told (in writing) that a significant amount of HCA, Inc., stock had been added to his blind trust; two weeks later he said he did not believe that he owned any stock in HCA. "I have no control," said Frist. "He could have been more exact," explained Frist's spokesman.
| Source:
The Washington Post
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| October 3, 2005 | - Senator Bill Frist was under investigation for insider trading.
| Source:
CNN Money
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| September 2, 2005 | - Senator Bill Frist called for a permanent repeal to the estate tax.
| Source:
Think Progress
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| June 17, 2005 | - When asked about some earlier statements regarding Terri Schiavo, Senator Bill Frist, who on March 17 said from the floor of the Senate that he had reviewed videotapes of Schiavo and that the “footage, to me, portrays something very different than persistent vegetative state,” said, “I never, never, on the floor of the Senate made a diagnosis.”
| Source:
Washington Post
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| April 25, 2005 | -
Senator
Bill Frist of Tennessee asked Christian conservatives to help him end filibusters.
| Source:
New York Times
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| March 23, 2005 | - Senator Bill Frist--a doctor who as a Harvard
medical student adopted pound cats as pets, then killed them to practice his surgical technique--diagnosed Terri Schiavo from afar, suggesting that her condition could improve.
| Source:
New York Times
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| February 4, 2004 | -
Ricin, a powerful poison made from castor beans, was found in the mailroom of Senate majority leader Bill Frist.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| January 22, 2004 | - Republican staff members of the Senate Judiciary Committee were still under investigation for improperly infiltrating
Democratic computers and reading strategy memos, which were then leaked to the press. Several computers, including a server from Senator Bill Frist's office, have been confiscated by the Senate's Sergeant-at-Arms.
| Source:
Boston Globe
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| July 2, 2003 | - Senator Bill Frist called for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
| Source:
New York Times
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