This week the Senate will discuss the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. HR 1256's major provision will finally allow FDA regulation of tobacco.
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news too. The White House and Congress hopes to pass health care reform by the end of July, go to conference committee negotiations, and have the bill ready for the President's signature by October:
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“He wants the bill through the Senate and the House before the August recess, so we can conference and have it done in September and signed in October,” said Senator Barbara A. Mikulski, Democrat of Maryland. “He said we need to be unflinching and unflagging.”
In remarks just before the meeting, Mr. Obama said: “This is going to be a heavy lift. I think everybody understands that. But I’m also confident that people want to get this done this year.”
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