[Ip-health] Drug reimportation language holds up homeland security bill

[Jeff Williams]

All,

See: http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=35056&dcn=e_gvet

Prescription drug reimportation language in the House and Senate fiscal
2007 Homeland Security spending bills has emerged as a major sticking
point to completing negotiations on the $33.7 billion measure.

Both bills contain a provision barring Customs and Border Protection
agents from seizing legal drugs being brought across the U.S.-Canada
border, prompting an outcry from the powerful pharmaceutical lobby.
The White House and GOP leaders oppose the provision, but it has
widespread
support among rank-and-file Republicans in both chambers, notably Rep.
Jo Ann Emerson of Missouri and Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana.

Emerson, a member of the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee,
would be among the House negotiators, but House Speaker Dennis Hastert,
R-Ill., has not yet appointed conferees.

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