Political Quotes

“It is about children. That is why it is called the Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act. In the history of medicine in America, we could never figure out a way to get the drug companies to do studies on children, delicate children, children who get sick from taking drugs. We could never find a way to get these studies done so we could bring the benefits of modern medicine that the elderly enjoy, that the middle-aged enjoy, fully to the children of America. In 1997, my Democratic proponent of this bill, the gentleman from California (Mr. Waxman) and I, wrote legislation that did that. We broke the impasse after all of those years, and we have just begun to reap the benefits from it. The Federal Food and Drug Administration said, 'The pediatric exclusivity provision has done more to generate clinical studies and useful prescribing information for the pediatric population than any other regulatory or legislative process to date,' period.”