The official said the main sticking point is whether the Food and Drug Administration will have regulatory authority over tobacco, which is supported by the White House, former FDA Administrator David Kessler and former Surgeon General C.

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Granting FDA regulatory authority was pushed by the White House, as well as former FDA Administrator David Kessler and Former Surgeon General C.

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The visiting volunteer eye surgeon is paired with a local eye doctor and often stays in his or her house.

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On tobacco, McCain would again have public opinion behind him, but he also had to please an array of constituencies: Democrats, Republicans, the White House, the industry, plaintiffs' lawyers and hard-line public health groups represented by former Surgeon General C.

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It begins with the doctors and nurses who stayed behind to care for the sick and the injured without equipment, without electricity -- like our nation's Surgeon General, Dr. Regina Benjamin -- (applause) -- who mortgaged her house, maxed out on her credit cards so she could reopen her clinic and help care for victims of the storm.

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