William Tauzin: “the intent of the language is to study the question of the illegal diversion of drugs for improper purposes, that is…”

“the intent of the language is to study the question of the illegal diversion of drugs for improper purposes, that is, for resale and that sort of thing. We describe the purposes within that amendment. So the gentleman is accurate in his statement. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I simply wanted to thank the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Brown) and the members of the Committee on Energy and Commerce who worked on this amendment, as I said, to help coordinate the fine work done by the chairman and the gentleman from California (Mr. Lantos) on this underlying bill. This is an excellent piece of legislation. I hope we have improved it. I will commit to the gentleman from California (Mr. Lantos) that we will continue to work with him to clarify the concerns he has. We do not want to create those problems. We are simply trying to add more accountability, not less; and more clarity, less confusion. Finally, let me point out to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Brown) that it has obviously come to our committee's attention that a great deal of work is going on domestically by a number of pharmaceutical companies in testing, et cetera, in attempts to find some sort of vaccine to combat HIV/AIDS and some of these other diseases, particularly HIV/ AIDS.”