Bill Pascrell: “What are we doing putting it in place in a tax law and a budget bill now and then a month later? Just this week, The New…”

“What are we doing putting it in place in a tax law and a budget bill now and then a month later? Just this week, The New York Times ran a piece titled: ``Can Your Hip Replacement Kill You?'' The article describes a man named Dr. Stephen Tower, who was given an artificial hip with a defect in the device. It is in your bill. Doctors had to do a second surgery. They found cobalt leaking from the device, causing a condition called metallosis, destroying muscle, tendons, ligaments, harming Dr. Tower's heart and brain as well. Despite Dr. Tower's complaints to colleagues and the manufacturer, they continued to market it. How dare the Speaker of the House question why we want DACA in this legislation when he has got a bill that--32 million Americans use medical devices. There is no Federal FDA test for most of those devices. {time} 1730 They have got the court, they bribed doctors, and it is in your bill, but we could not take care of those 800,000 people. Mr. Speaker, we need a different issue.”