FDA user fee hearing
Executive Summary
Rep. Waxman's (D-Calif.) Energy & Commerce/health subcommittee hearing on FDA user fees is tentatively scheduled for Aug. 10. FDA Commissioner Kessler has been scrambling to build a consensus on user fee legislation and recently stepped up agency dialog with PMA and key congressional staffers in a series of meetings in July ("The Pink Sheet" July 20, T&G-8). On July 29, Kessler and CDER Director Carl Peck met with Waxman staffer Bill Schultz for the second time in three weeks. House and Senate staffers are hoping to craft a bill that can win PMA support before the end of the current session of Congress....