Bart Stupak: “For 2 years we have been working on this project: reimportation. When it leaves this country and comes back into this…”

“For 2 years we have been working on this project: reimportation. When it leaves this country and comes back into this country, we do not know what it is. This is one post office, where 721 parcels came back in. We cannot tell what it is, how it got here, how it was made, what it even is made of. This is the yellow powder we speak of. This is boric acid and yellow highway paint. They do it to put on these pills which they put in this blister pack for Poncet. Nothing we can use medically in this country. This is about drug safety. It is not priced for senior citizens. All of us Democrats, most of us Republicans, would like to see lower drug prices. This is drug safety. For 2 years we have been working on this issue. Do not limit the FDA's ability to do enforcement when these drugs like this highway paint are coming in and being put on pills and we are supposed to take it as a safe drug. Reject this amendment. If you want to pass meaningful legislation, pass the Allen bill.”