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...correcting the atlas.' DANIEL GUTKNECHT, topographer, on the agreement between Switzerland and Italy to shift their border 150 m into Italian territory because melting alpine glaciers have moved the watershed used to demarcate the two countries...
...legislation worked its way through Congress, lawmakers edged closer to legalizing the purchase of prescription drugs from Canada. An amendment sanctioning sales to U.S. pharmacies was sponsored by Representative Gil Gutknecht, a Minnesota Republican, and approved in July by a vote of 243 to 186. Notably, Gutknecht's language provided ample protection for consumers--long the argument cited by the FDA and the pharmaceutical industry for prohibiting Canadian drug purchases. The provision authorized U.S. pharmacies to import prescription drugs made in Canada and other industrialized countries as long as manufacturers used counterfeit-resistant technologies and the drugs were approved...
Even while addressing the issue of safety, Gutknecht pointed to what he believed to be the main motivation for resistance to such legislation: "Now, when we talk about safety, I think the real question is, Who are we protecting from whom? Who is really being protected by our FDA? More and more of us are coming to the conclusion that the only people really being protected are the big executives of the large pharmaceutical companies. We ask ourselves, Why are Americans, the world's best customers, paying the world's highest prices? ... I am a Republican. There is nothing wrong...
Later, Representative Gutknecht, the Minnesota Republican, pressed Hubbard along the same line...
...Gutknecht has had to dodge a fusillade of negative ads in this campaign--not from challenger Mary Rieder but from the AFL-CIO, which targeted him as part of a $35 million effort to unseat G.O.P. freshmen nationwide. Still, Gutknecht says Medicare is growing too fast and favors proposals to slow spending on it. He has also vowed to take no more than a third of his funding from PACs...