Timing On User Fee Votes Up In Air, As GOP Delays Senate Health Care Bill Battle

 
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Senate leaders had shoved a floor vote on the five-year device and drug user fee reauthorization bill to the back burner to make room for a pre-July 4 vote on the Senate's Obamacare repeal bill, the Better Care Reconciliation Act. But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is now delaying a vote to get more votes, a step that could further throw off the timing of FDARA passage.

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Consideration of a five-year user fee bill, the FDA Reconciliation Act, was pushed back in the Senate's schedule, as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kent., announced June 27 he needs more time – until after the July 4th recess – to gather Republican votes in favor of the Senate's Affordable Care Act repeal effort released June 22, the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA). (Also see "ACA Repeal: A Look At Device Procedure Impacts" - Medtech Insight, 16 June, 2017.)

Senate Republicans have recognized the importance of getting the user fee package, FDARA, completed and signed by President Trump before...

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