Bill Delahunt: “One of the great bipartisan efforts that this House has witnessed since I have served in this Congress is under the…”

“One of the great bipartisan efforts that this House has witnessed since I have served in this Congress is under the leadership of both of those gentlemen, along with yourself, the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Emanuel), and other Democrats when we got through this Chamber against the forces of the pharmaceutical industry. And it was a shock for everyone, the right of Americans to reimport drugs from Canada. And so they deserve credit along with those who worked very hard to get it accomplished. But can the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Burton) tell me, is there anything in this bill that will be coming to the floor this week that allows for reimportation? And if it does, is it real and tangible, something, as the gentleman from New Jersey indicates, which will allow for real competition? Because you know and the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Gutknecht) knows and the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Pallone) knows, they purchase their drugs significantly cheaper in Canada than our folks do here.”