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In preempting State law, the Norwood amendment goes beyond conduct that involves negligent medical judgment to a particular patient's case. The amendment made by virtue of the words 'based on' stipulate that State malpractice law does not…
Let me just read to the gentleman a statement by Ari Fleischer today on this issue. The question to him was: Republicans and Democrats believe that the deal struck between Mr. Norwood and the President would abrogate State laws on…
I think it would be unfortunate and misguided if we were to turn back the clock and grant an exemption from the oxygenate requirements of the Clean Air Act today. Such an amendment would inhibit the use of ethanol and decrease our use of…
I believe there are ethical considerations that enter to the creation of an embryo for research purposes, and that is why I will support the Weldon bill. And I will vote against the Greenwood substitute.
And would the gentleman say that the reason for that is that his bill is focusing primarily on the initial creation of this blastocyst or the equivalent of a fertilized egg and the problems that that would have because we would be…
I wrote an op ed piece that said, ``Let me make my position absolutely clear. I oppose the cloning of human beings. I favor Federal funding of stem cell research. The potential this research has to cure disease and alleviate human…
I commend my colleague from Indiana for his persistence on this amendment. We have had this debate a lot. Before I came to Congress in 1995, a few years before that, there was a huge debate on this, and the space station only stayed in…
we have some important issues coming up in this next week, I hope. One of those, I hope, will be a full debate with a fair rule on a patient's bill of rights. We have been working on this legislation for about 5 years, and when we had this…
shortly after the last election in November of last year, I traveled to Hanoi. I spent about a week there on a volunteer surgical mission. I found the people to be friendly and courteous. Make no mistake, though: the Communist government…
Okay. Now, then, we had hearings in my committee, the Committee on Energy and Commerce, talking about how there are some counterfeit drugs that get into the market. These hearings primarily focused on some very expensive drugs, like growth…
But it is a fair statement that the prices are significantly lower for the very same prescription drugs that are made in the United States that are sent overseas, that they are significantly lower, sometimes half as much or even a quarter…
I want to just pin this down. The gentleman would say it is fair to say that there are many countries in the world where the prices are significantly less than they are in the United States; even though the drugs are exactly the same, they…
Continuing the gentleman's analogy, Mr. Speaker, what the gentleman is saying is that there is not anyone in this House who is going to propose that we cut off all imports of beef or vegetables or fruits that come into the United States…
Or, for example, someone's local pharmacist would be able to order that drug from the wholesaler at the lower price and would be able to pass those savings on to the consumer. That is why this idea passed the House of Representatives with…
That would mean, for instance, that a citizen in Minnesota could cross the border into Canada with a prescription and get it filled there, or a citizen in Texas or Arizona or New Mexico could cross the border and get a prescription filled…
Now, the difference, the reason that we have these very high prices in United States, as versus, say, Switzerland, is because we cannot reimport those drugs from Switzerland into the United States because we have a Federal law that…
But there is nothing in the gentleman's amendment that would prevent the FDA from intercepting that shipment, that drug that she had ordered, and testing it, just like they would do if she had ordered it from a retailer in the United…
Well, we have had, Mr. Speaker, a great debate going on in the Senate this week on the Patients' Bill of Rights; and I have been watching this with great interest, because for the past 5 years I have been working on this issue, and I have…
I am thankful that the House is taking up this legislation today which is the companion bill to the Ganske 4-H bill, H.R. 1388, which has wide bipartisan support. In April, a group of 4-H'ers from Iowa asked me to introduce this…
since 1965, when Medicare was enacted, virtually all senior citizens and most people with disabilities have been able to access mainstream medical care. Each working day, Medicare beneficiaries make almost 1 million physician visits…
this is not complicated, it is simple. People are either for tax relief, or they are not. This bill provides tax relief for families with children, for married couples, for farmers, for small businesspeople. Mr. Speaker, when the year 2011…
we are about ready to head home on recess, so I want to speak to my colleagues about something that I think that we should address when we come back from this recess. That is the issue of patient protection legislation. We have been…
Mr. Speaker, I want to talk a little bit about two health care issues that are very important: patient protection legislation and prescription drug coverage. Just last night, Mr. Speaker, I was at an event here in Washington, and a…
Prescription drugs have been a health blessing for Americans. Millions of lives have been saved, prolonged, and enhanced by prescription drugs. But those same drugs have also been an economic burden for American consumers and taxpayers…
headlines in USA Today scream: ``Global Warming Is Evident Now.'' U.S. News and World Report's cover story proclaims: ``Scary Weather: Scientists Issue a Startling Forecast of Global Climate Change,'' and they feature a picture of the…
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