Bill Nelson: “here is an example. If we want to solve this problem, the different agencies of the Government can come together and…”

“here is an example. If we want to solve this problem, the different agencies of the Government can come together and solve this problem. We already have it on the record, in correspondence and telephone conversation between this Senator from Florida and the FDA, that they have no objection to an up-to-90-day supply coming from Canada, ordered by American citizens, either by the Internet, by mail, or by personally going to Canada. And what about the safety the Senator from New Hampshire has raised? Safety: It is coming from the same drug manufacturers we presently have in America; the very same drug, very same packaging, very same pharmaceutical laboratories. The big difference is our citizens--and particularly this applies to our senior citizens--can get these prescription drugs at a much lower price. Now, I would encourage the Senator from Louisiana, in order to avoid the attacks on the amendment, as have been raised by the Senator from New Hampshire, to pare down the amendment so that those attacks cannot apply. The safety issue of prescription drugs coming from Canada cannot be assailed because those drugs come from the very same manufacturers, in the very same places, as those prescription drugs that are, in fact, provided to our American citizens.”