WASHINGTON, DC— Today, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Chairman of the Health,
Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, released the following statement in response
to the report presented by the Food and Drug Administration’s Science Board.
“The Bush Administration needs to take this report as a wake-up call that our citizens are
being placed at great risk every single day that it fails to provide the FDA with the
resources to do its job. This report also recognizes that our country's leadership in new
technologies and emerging science is at risk. Failure to fund the FDA will cost America
in terms of reduced competitiveness and lost jobs. This report is a call to action, and the
Bush Administration must heed the call.”
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