On the recordJuly 11, 2007
Number one, my understanding is as we took this bill through the subcommittee and committee that we accepted legislative language on an amendment that would provide for a reverse trigger so that if the gentleman and other appropriators want to provide more money for the evaluation of new drugs and devices, the actual contribution from the user fees will decrease. After all, it was a Democratic Congress in 1992 that began the first Prescription Drug User Fee Act, and the reason for that legislation was because it simply took too long to get drugs and devices through the regulatory maze. And as a consequence, practicing physicians such as myself were denied access to life-saving medications for their patients. So the Democrats in the early 1990s improved the process by adding the prescription drug user fees, but we would all be happy with the appropriators if they would step up to the plate and appropriate the correct amount of money.
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