On the recordOctober 3, 2000
I think that it has to be about allowing the local pharmacies and other groups to import, but most importantly, if nothing else happens this year, we ought to make it very clear to the FDA that as long as it is an FDA-approved drug, made in an FDA-approved facility, they should stop threatening American seniors for trying to save a few bucks on prescription drugs. It is immoral for them to send threatening letters to 87-year-old widows trying to save $15 on a prescription or $20 or maybe $100, whatever it happens to be. For our own FDA to be the bully in this whole debate, it seems to me is outrageous. Now, if it is an illegal drug, then absolutely it ought to be stopped at the border. But if it clearly is an FDA-approved drug made in an FDA-approved facility, for them to be allowed to send threatening letters to our seniors ought to stop and it ought to stop the day the President signs that bill. I feel very strongly about this.
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