Louise Slaughter: “Not only for the drug industry, Mr. Speaker, but for the people who manufacture medical devices. I know that is hard to…”

“Not only for the drug industry, Mr. Speaker, but for the people who manufacture medical devices. I know that is hard to believe, given that the drug companies just cleaned up from the Medicare bill passed here, but they are indemnified in this bill if the FDA has approved what they are doing. Mr. Speaker, this is the same FDA that just last week threw science overboard and declined to approve a drug that has been found safe in 36 countries and by 24 of 29 scientists that studied it for the FDA. I do not trust the FDA anymore. But the FDA gives it approval, and then says citizens will have no recourse.”