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Re: Burr speaks out again on FDA

cdtew — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:16:03 -0400

A) This is a bipartisan effort from both NC senators. Get a grip or get out.

B) Victims is a funny thing to call people who smoke. I don't see many "murder victims" or "rape victims" paying their attackers repeatedly to harm them.

Re: Burr speaks out again on FDA

interested860 — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:10:08 -0400

Is tomorrow's tie dark brown like the lungs of his tobacco god's victims?

Re: Burr speaks out again on FDA

interested860 — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:08:31 -0400

He works HARD for the tobacco money!

Burr speaks out again on FDA

ryanteaguebeckwith — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:48:26 -0400

Republican Sen. Richard Burr was back on the Senate floor this morning with his charts.

He spoke — again — about the FDA mission, about restricting tobacco companies' ability to develop less-harmful tobacco, about his doubts that FDA regulation of tobacco would do the most good in reducing levels of smoking, Barb Barrett reports.

He said he and Sen. Kay Hagan, a Greensboro Democrat, plan to offer their alternative bill tonight in the Senate. Their bill would regulate tobacco in a different agency without many of the restrictions in the underlying FDA regulation bill.

And while watching Burr on the C-SPAN2 this week, check out the ties: Yesterday, he wore green, reflecting the rows of growing tobacco so ubiquitous Down East.

Today, his tie is gold, the shade of cured brightleaf.