By Porter Wright on UPDATE The House agreed to the Senate amendment to HR 5116 on 12/21/2010. We’ll discuss the implications of this in more detail after the Xmas holiday. The Senate unanimously passed H.R. 5116 on Friday 12/17/2010, after first adopting an amendment in the nature of a substitute. As opposed to the version of H.R. 5116 that was … Continue Reading
By Porter Wright on The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, on July 22, favorably reported S. 3605, the Senate version of the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010, sending it on the the full Senate for debate. The text of the bill as reported is not yet available from THOMAS, however the text of the bill as … Continue Reading
By Porter Wright on Recently, the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) Office of Pharmaceutical Science issued the above entitled addition to CDER’s Manual of Policies and Procedures(MAPP). This produced some uproar in the nanotech community by some who interpreted a single line as indicating that the FDA was about to start redefining nanomaterials. The purpose of this new MAPP … Continue Reading
By Porter Wright on On Friday, May 28, 2010, debate on H.R. 5116, the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010, discussed here earlier, resumed. As readers may recall, in the earlier debate in the House, a motion to recommit the bill to committee and for it to be reported back with an amendment, had been adopted by the House. On … Continue Reading
By Porter Wright on To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making Prince Otto von Bismarck On April 22, 2010, Rep. Bart Gordon of Tennessee introduced HR 5116, the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010, which was then referred to the House Committee on Science and Technology and the House Committee on Education and … Continue Reading
