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On the recordApril 15, 2013
The real issue here, Commissioner Hamburg, is what authority does the FDA have that they didn't exercise for whatever reason in the last 10 years, and what new authority does Congress want to give them?
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Diana DeGette
Democratic · Colorado

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DeGette questions the FDA's authority and Congress's role in clarifying it.

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