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The main battlefront over the Canadian conduit has been in Congress, where the drug industry has developed a close working relationship with powerful legislators to hold the line against cheap foreign imports. Just before Congress passed the $400 billion Medicare bill providing prescription drug coverage to seniors in November, friendly...
As the 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...
Another provision in the bill, related to pricing but with the opposite goal, managed to stay in the law. "Subpart 2, Prescription Drug Plans" contained three paragraphs that will have an enduring effect on how much America's elderly pay for prescription drugs:
Recently, Senate and House negotiators inserted a provision to restore AmeriCorps’ previous funding level—and then some—into the omnibus budget bill that the Senate will vote on this month. Following its passage in the House in December, the bill is expected to pass...
The groups most directly responsible for student safety allowed news of SafetyWalk’s dissolution to slip through the cracks and promulgated a farcical safety provision: the College continued advertising SafetyWalk to students on blue light security phones, fire doors and in the Guide for the Class of 2007...