Mike Enzi: “Yes. Does the Senator feel that the $1.10 or $1.50, as it is $1.50…”

On the recordMay 20, 1998

Yes. Does the Senator feel that the $1.10 or $1.50, as it is $1.50 right now, would have the amount of money the FDA needs to do the kind of enforcement we have been putting on them? Does the Senator think that when we talked about in the Labor Committee, which I am on, the $34 million amount for the FDA and all of the things that would do, and that this bill has considerably more money in it than that for the FDA, does the Senator think that we are doing overkill, perhaps, with the FDA? Will they be able to adequately use the amount of money that we are talking about in this bill for that agency alone? It is a considerable expansion of that agency. Do you think that our agencies are set up in a manner that they can escalate the amount of spending that they are very good at, but can they escalate the amount of spending they are doing to meet these new amounts that are coming in, particularly with the FDA, which is critical to this?

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Mike Enzi

Republican · Wyoming

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Questioning funding levels for the FDA during a Senate discussion on budget allocations.

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Mike Enzi: “Yes. Does the Senator feel that the $1.10 or $1.50, as it is $1.50 right now, would have the amount of money the FDA…”

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