But it seems clear that the reimportation issue is coming to a head in this election year.

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Despite being a pioneer of electronic music, he believes a "reimportation of human elements" will feature strongly.

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When he signed it, Clinton complained that the reimportation measure had no teeth.

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Senator Dorgan has charged that the White House pressured the FDA to send this letter that helps kill the drug reimportation amendment.

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Drug reimportation has hardly been a panacea in Europe, where Traversa points out that it accounts for about 2% of the entire European market.

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In theory, companies could just manufacture drugs for foreign markets at plants that are not FDA-approved, thus rendering these drugs ineligible for reimportation to the U.S. market.

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House and Senate Republican leaders announced their support for prescription drug reimportation last week in effort to address the high cost of drugs for Americans - a top voter concern - before the end of the congressional session.

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Drug reimportation, which the President supports if one can do it safely, were the concern of the previous administration's Food and Drug Administration and the concern of the Food and Drug Administration to the administration previous to that.

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The pharmaceutical industry itself nearly got double-crossed during the health debate when it looked like Rep. Henry Waxman, then chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, would ignore the deal cut with the White House by adding a reimportation provision to the legislation anyway.

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