Debbie Dingell: “this is a good amendment and it should be adopted. How many of my colleagues saw television last Sunday night when they…”

“this is a good amendment and it should be adopted. How many of my colleagues saw television last Sunday night when they saw the hundreds of thousands of fraudulent counterfeit pharmaceuticals, pills that could be imported into the United States from China, and saw Chinese entrepreneurs bragging about how many of these they could make available? You can kill people with bad drugs two ways. One is by giving them adulterated, contaminated unsafe drugs. That'll kill them. The other way is to give them drugs that don't do anything. And these drugs, although cleverly marked and wonderfully packaged, don't do anything. How many of you want the blood on your hands of having people killed by allowing drugs to be imported which are not safe or which do not do what they're supposed to do? How many people here want to see to it that your constituents are getting drugs which won't deal with hypertension or which won't address the problems of cancer or which won't deal with other life-threatening drugs, with life-threatening conditions? I urge you to support this amendment. I commend my good friend from Michigan for his leadership, and I say thank you. The Nation owes you a debt. The Nation is watching this Congress to see whether or not this Congress is going to protect the people or whether we're going to expose them to great risk. I challenge my colleagues to do what is right.”