Motion to Discharge
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Mrs. MURRAY. We should be setting a very high bar for doing anything like this.
I do appreciate my colleague's concern that he is bringing to the floor today for growers in his State. Greening disease is a serious and alarming environmental issue. But skipping regular order here today to override FDA's experts and meddle with its longstanding process for modifying food standards of identity does not get to the root of the problem.
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Mrs. MURRAY. Mr. President.
I appreciate the leadership my colleague from Kansas has shown on this issue. I know it is important to him. However, I am concerned this new bill brought forward today is far less targeted than the provisions the Senator from Kansas and I worked on within PREVENT and would have significant and unintended consequences for U.S. biomedical research.
Instead of passing this bill, I would respectfully ask my colleague from Kansas to keep working with me and Ranking Member Burr to get his related provision and the rest of our PREVENT Pandemics Act across the finish line.
I thank the Senator from Kansas for his work and his focus on this issue. I really think we can continue to make bipartisan progress in the next few weeks on getting the PREVENT Pandemics Act and the Senator's provision he and I worked on into a good place and finally getting that much needed package signed into law.
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Mrs. MURRAY. Mr. President.
I am glad we were able to work together to include a provision similar to this bill in our PREVENT Pandemics Act that we did pass out of the HELP Committee by an overwhelming vote earlier this year.
Along with Ranking Member Burr, we are very focused on getting the PREVENT Pandemics Act passed into law. These reforms are overdue and vital to keeping our families safe.
The Senator's provisions within that package, as well as many others, are really key to making sure that our country is prepared for future pandemics.
I do hope we can continue to work on this bill in a bipartisan way and get it passed and put into law shortly.
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