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On the recordApril 4, 2017
If you need to come back to us and tell Congress that the FDA's mission is to fine tune narrowly just around the approval process rather than being proactive to deal with an issue that is as massive as the management of pain, I hope you will come back to us and tell us that because I would think we would need to.
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Tim Kaine
Democratic · Virginia

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Kaine emphasizes the need for the FDA to adopt a proactive approach to pain management.

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