Byron Dorgan: “if I may further, this is the first I understand that there is an issue with the anticounterfeit measures we have put in…”

“if I may further, this is the first I understand that there is an issue with the anticounterfeit measures we have put in our reimportation bill. We have the counterfeit-resistant technologies that we have put in the bill. I guess if I hear the Senator from Wyoming correctly, he is not comfortable with those at this point. I had thought the issue was generally the philosophy of reimportation and pricing. Then I think we have a deeper chasm than I expected. I thought there was generally consensus that the technology that now exists, whether it is RFID or lots of new things that are available, the technology that exists should be used with respect to the latest available technology to resist counterfeiting. I thought there was perhaps a consensus on that. Maybe I was wrong. If there is a disagreement about whether we should have standardized identifiers, then I suppose there should be some hearings on that. I had thought we were beyond that point. That was the purpose of my offering a second-degree amendment. I did not expect it would be controversial to apply, whether it is to the domestic drug supply or the potential reimportation at some future point, the counterfeit-resistant technologies that already exist to be made available if we simply require it.”