Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. H.R. 6190, this is a bill that I honestly wish we did not have to consider today. Over the past several years, I have repeatedly asked the Food and Drug Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, and even the White House, the President himself, for answers to questions that I and other members of the committee have as to why the administration has refused to grant a waiver to sell the existing stock of over-the- counter epinephrine inhalers. Only last summer, and because the committee was moving legislation at the time, did the Food and Drug Administration finally provide at least some sort of response, albeit one that was entirely unsatisfactory. Under the rules known as the Montreal Protocol, certain chemical propellants used in a number of medical and cosmetic devices were to be phased out over a number of years, the chlorofluorocarbons, CFC, used in the epinephrine inhalers. Here is one of the ones that was one of those propellants. One of the manufacturers of these over-the-counter inhalers has worked on a replacement inhaler only to meet with stonewalling through the Food and Drug Administration and requests for more studies into the device. Although the Food and Drug Administration claims they are awaiting an application from the company, the company counters that the Food and Drug Administration once again continues to move the goalpost. Regardless of the finger-pointing, Mr.…”