[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 10615]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, the Senate will be in a period of morning 
business until 4:15, with Senators allowed to speak therein for up to 
10 minutes each. At 4:15 the Senate will begin consideration of the FDA 
authorization. The chairman and ranking member, Senators Kennedy and 
Enzi, have worked very hard to get the bill here. They did great work 
over the weekend. Two very important issues that would have made this 
bill much more complex, it appears, have been worked out. I hope that 
is the case. One deals with drug reimportation; the other deals with 
biomedicine. We think they have worked that out. Time will tell.
  There will be no rollcall votes today. There will be a vote probably 
prior to the recess tomorrow. If we don't have something on the FDA 
bill, we have a Federal district court judge we need to vote on and we 
can get that out of the way.
  The FDA legislation is extremely important. It appears we have the 
opportunity to do some bipartisan work in that regard.

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