Judd Gregg: “Madam President, today we have been discussing, at some depth, and appropriately so, how to protect American citizens…”

“Madam President, today we have been discussing, at some depth, and appropriately so, how to protect American citizens who purchase drugs overseas--from overseas pharmacies or from Canadian pharmacies--or purchase drugs on the Internet. This is a very significant issue for Americans, especially as more and more Americans use the Internet for the purposes of buying all sorts of items, including pharmaceuticals. So we need to be sure this extraordinary regime we have set up in this country stays intact that allows a person, when he or she goes into an American drugstore or goes into an American supermarket, to be fairly confident the product they buy is not adulterated and the product they buy is what it says it is and that in the instance of a pharmaceutical or a medication, it is going to be what the doctor told them to take. That has been one of the great successes of American Government. It is because the Food and Drug Administration is overseeing this effort to protect the food supply and the pharmaceutical supply.”