Peter Pitts
We've been saying it for years -- when it comes to FDA reform, the descant is "Show me the money!" And we're glad to say that the chorus has picked up some new members.
“To us, it’s clear that they’re seriously underfunded,” Senator Herb Kohl, Democrat of Wisconsin, said after a hearing of the Appropriations subcommittee, headed by Mr. Kohl, that oversees the FDA’s spending.
The subcommittee’s ranking minority member, Senator Robert F. Bennett, Republican of Utah, agreed with Mr. Kohl and tried at the hearing to get the food and drug commissioner, Dr. Andrew C. von Eschenbach, to say how much more the agency could use wisely.
If lawmakers decide that the White House “was wrong and you needed to add another $100 million, just to pull a number completely out of the air, could you handle that?” Mr. Bennett asked.
Dr. von Eschenbach said he would “welcome an opportunity to present a scenario of portfolio options” for levels of financing.
That's a nice way to put it.
Posted by Peter Pitts on April 16, 2008 6:59 AM
We've been saying it for years -- when it comes to FDA reform, the descant is "Show me the money!" And we're glad to say that the chorus has picked up some new members.
“To us, it’s clear that they’re seriously underfunded,” Senator Herb Kohl, Democrat of Wisconsin, said after a hearing of the Appropriations subcommittee, headed by Mr. Kohl, that oversees the FDA’s spending.
The subcommittee’s ranking minority member, Senator Robert F. Bennett, Republican of Utah, agreed with Mr. Kohl and tried at the hearing to get the food and drug commissioner, Dr. Andrew C. von Eschenbach, to say how much more the agency could use wisely.
If lawmakers decide that the White House “was wrong and you needed to add another $100 million, just to pull a number completely out of the air, could you handle that?” Mr. Bennett asked.
Dr. von Eschenbach said he would “welcome an opportunity to present a scenario of portfolio options” for levels of financing.
That's a nice way to put it.
Posted by Peter Pitts on April 16, 2008 6:59 AM
