Political Quotes

“the purpose of this second-degree amendment is to try to help ensure the result of the change in this law, in the authority for importing drugs into the country or selling drugs to American consumers from Canada, which I think this amendment the Senator has offered is targeted to address, will not result in any new dangers to the consuming public, and would require the Secretary to certify that that would be the case for any new regulatory regime implementing the amendment if it is adopted. One problem we need to bring to the attention of the Senate in connection with this amendment is the added cost that is going to result from this, in terms of added appropriations for the Food and Drug Administration. It is estimated by that agency that $92 million would have to be appropriated to provide the funding necessary to implement and carry out the obligations of that agency in connection with supervising this amendment.”