So, the way I see it--before Riegel, the device manufacturers didn't know if they'd win or lose in a tort claim, right?
Senator Kennedy, as he did 30 years ago, is fighting to ensure that consumers are safe.
Well, the ultimate goal is to get the very best devices we can to really help people like Mr. Mulvihill, like Mr. Roman, in ways that they'v...
I think sometimes they do good things, other times they don't do what they should be doing.
The FDA does not have subpoena power, does it?
I don't know where they'd get the money to hire these high-price lawyers from these big law firms.
The Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will come to order for this hearing on protecting patients from defective medical de...
It was inevitable that something like this would happen.
More than 30 years ago, Senator Kennedy championed the Medical Device Amendments, a bill that gave the Food and Drug Administration long-ove...
Manufacturers who commit fraud on the FDA are not immune from lawsuits.
This bill is really about real people who have been let down--let down, sometimes catastrophically.
They could penalize the company. They could seize the offending illegal products.
Before Riegel was decided, the device manufacturers were subject to tort laws.
I must also say, regardless of the difference between drugs and devices, we're getting new drugs on the market all the time, and they are no...
I happen to be for innovation, I happen to be for new devices, I happen to think that these are good things, but I also believe in holding p...
But it has not been redefined in law.
Those Uighurs, if resettled here in the United States, would contribute to the United States because they are opposed to al-Qaida and Taliba...
I have watched this unfold over the last years since September 11, and it appears to me that we are moving in a direction away from national...
