[ April 20, 2024 ]
This bill must pass. These are the kind of bills that Joe Biden would vote against, to appease his bosses in Beijing.
GOP lawmakers unveil bill to cut American dependence on Chinese drugs
By Fox News, March 19, 2020:
Story continues below advertisementCiting Chinese threats to disrupt the supply of pharmaceutical products the communist nation exports to the United States and plunge America into “the mighty sea of coronavirus,” Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and Rep Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., introduced a bill Wednesday to cut U.S. reliance on pharmaceutical products coming from China.
“The Chinese Communist Party threatened to cut off America’s access to vital drugs in the midst of a pandemic caused by its own failures,” Cotton said in a statement announcing the bill. “It’s time to pull America’s supply chains for life-saving medicine out of China and make the CCP pay for contributing to this global emergency.”
A release announcing the bill says it would task an FDA registry with tracking drug ingredients, ban the federal government from buying drugs with a supply chain that originates in China, require drugs to be labeled with the name of the country where they came from and provide benefits to manufacturers who make their drugs or medical equipment in the U.S. The bill would go into effect in 2022.
The Chinese Communist Party has threatened to cut off America's access to vital drugs in the midst of a pandemic caused by its own failures. It's time to pull America's supply chains for life-saving medicine out of China. https://t.co/XrBorsdynQ
— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) March 19, 2020
“The Chinese Communist Party’s outrageous threats to withhold lifesaving drugs from the U.S. endangers public health and should open our eyes to our dangerous over-reliance on China in our medical supply chain,” Gallagher said. “This is a national security imperative that to many Americans, is a matter of life and death. It’s past time for us to develop an aggressive plan to move critical pharmaceutical supply chains away from China.”
Currently, most drug components used in the United States are made internationally, and that supply is largely in China. The communist nation supplies between 80 percent and 90 percent of American antibiotics and 70 percent of acetaminophen used in the United States, according to Yanzhong Huang, a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Cotton and Gallagher aren’t the first members of Congress to introduce a bill aimed at bolstering the independence of America’s medical supply chain. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., introduced such a bill alongside Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J. And Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., introduced his own version.
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11 Comments
4 years ago
Not to worry,… stupid Government ‘Help’ is on it’s way !!!
4 years ago
Reply to
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
I’d bet allot of these “poor” people aren’t even getting $1200 a month prior to this virus. Geesh!
What about people on forced SS contributions now retired who see their investments tanking? It could go on and on and on…
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
COVID 19 IS A flu hype. this is a dictatorship whether izlum or whatever we are being controlled and I don’t like it.
4 years ago
I read yesterday that Israel is going to send several million doses of the malaria drug free. ^^^^^ !
4 years ago
Any demorats involved? Of course not – This is a start – we need to completely pull back form the commie rats ..
4 years ago
If merchandise marked “Made in China” were to disappear from the store shelves, Walmart would collapse overnight
4 years ago
Reply to
Drew the Infidel
cheap labor we know….less pay @ 25cents for a ragged t shirt or pen that’s full of poison and denim jeans with deadly dye
4 years ago
ARE YOU READING LABELS? WALMART’S EQUATE TALC FROM CHINA, HOUSEWARES, ETC.
4 years ago
Who ever thought China should be making the world’s medications in the first place? That’s the question. Why would America not be making our own medications? Those are my questions
