William Pryor: “Mr. President, I am going to revert back to a measure that we just passed in the Senate, I think, less than an hour ago…”

“Mr. President, I am going to revert back to a measure that we just passed in the Senate, I think, less than an hour ago, which is the debt ceiling legislation. On that legislation, the distinguished Senator from Arizona, Senator McCain, had included an amendment he had long fought for, and I support that amendment very strongly, Mr. President. That was an amendment relative to the social security earnings test. It was on that particular amendment that I had told the leadership in times past that should that amendment come to the floor, I was going to attempt to amend that particular provision with a measure that would basically clear up, once and forever more, a mistake we made in the GATT Treaty legislation that we passed last year in the U.S. Senate. In other words, Mr. President, I was going to use that as a vehicle to amend this provision, which allows one particular drug company-- Glaxo, for example--to absolutely continue taking advantage of not only the taxpayer, but also the consumer, the aging American, taking this particular drug called Zantac, and prohibiting, precluding generic competition from coming into the marketplace.”