National uniformity compromise obtainable to bring FDA reform bill to floor -- Sen. Kennedy.
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
NATIONAL UNIFORMITY "COMPROMISES CAN BE REACHED," SEN. KENNEDY told Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) in floor remarks made July 31 prior to the August congressional recess. Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), the Labor & Human Resources Committee ranking minority member, suggested that "acceptable compromises can be reached" in negotiations on federal pre-emption of states' authority to regulate OTCs and cosmetics and on device-related provisions in Sen. James Jeffords' (R-Vt.) FDA reform bill (S 830).