Mike Enzi: “This isn't something we are trying to force through, this isn't something that there are a lot of arguments about, but…”

“This isn't something we are trying to force through, this isn't something that there are a lot of arguments about, but it is something essential to the American people: their food and drug safety. We are the best country in the world at doing it. We can do it better. This bill lets us do it better. Is it a perfect bill? That never happens around here. Is it a big victory for patients and children? Absolutely. This actually incorporates four reauthorizations and one massive reform. We take care of a lot of things in this package that normally would take a lot of hours on the floor, but because of the participation from both sides of the aisle, and from everybody intensively on the committee, we were able to put together a bill that solves a lot of problems. The FDA's choice before was to pull a drug off the market or to leave it on. If it had some kind of a problem that could be solved some simple way, it wasn't an option; pull it off or leave it on.”