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Barbara Mikulski: “I oppose this amendment. First, it is a budget buster. To enforce this will take enormous amounts of resources. You…”

On the recordOctober 20, 2011
I oppose this amendment. First, it is a budget buster. To enforce this will take enormous amounts of resources. You cannot be sure that that drug coming from Canada is not a counterfeit, lethal death drug. You don't have any enforcement procedures in here, you don't have the money to enforce it, and we have a history of phony drugs coming into rogue Web sites through counterfeit countries. If you want a drug that has been made in a country that we view as predators toward the United States, when you take your Coumadin, when you want your wife to take her breast cancer drug, when your daughter is going to take that birth control bill, then you want the Vitter amendment. But if you want safety, then defeat the amendment.
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Barbara Mikulski
Democratic · Maryland
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Oct 20, 2011

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