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.
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Re: Burr speaks out again on FDA
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.