House defeats FDA proposal
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House lawmakers yesterday killed a Senate proposal to give the Food and Drug Administration authority over the manufacture and marketing of tobacco.
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The 213-203 roll call Friday by which the House rejected Senate legislation addressing the Sept. 11 commission's recommendations.
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The Republican-controlled House of Representatives failed to pass a proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage Thursday, the latest in a string of conservative pet causes pushed to a vote in the run-up to Election Day.
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House Republican leaders blocked and appeared to kill a bill Saturday that would have enacted the major recommendations of the Sept.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration failed the public in its oversight of Merck & Co Inc.'s painkiller Vioxx, which has been withdrawn, and is "incapable of protecting America" from another dangerous drug, an agency researcher told Congress on Thursday.
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The Senate on Thursday night dropped an amendment to the farm bill that would have banned fatty foods and high-calorie beverages at school snack bars, stores and vending machines, dealing a blow to its chances of passage.
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The U.S. House of Representatives  failed on Thursday to muster the two-thirds majority needed to  pass a proposed constitutional amendment backed by President  Bush to ban gay marriage.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration fails to inspect domestic plants that produce pacemakers and other high-risk medical devices as often as required and checks few manufacturing sites overseas, congressional investigators told Congress on Tuesday.
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The U.S. House of Representatives  approved a bill on Wednesday aimed at strengthening Food and  Drug Administration drug safety oversight and raising  pharmaceutical industry fees that help speed product reviews.
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The House on Friday rejected a timetable for pulling U.S. forces out of Iraq after a ferociously partisan debate, forcing lawmakers in both parties to go on record on a major issue in re-election campaigns nationwide.
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In a setback for public health groups, Congress moved closer to passing tobacco buyout legislation yesterday but removed a provision for federal regulation of tobacco products.
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The U.S. House of Representatives, in its last days under Republican control, failed on Wednesday to pass a bill that would have required doctors to offer painkillers for fetuses before they abort them.
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NEW YORK - A US Food and Drug Administration advisory panel rejected Procter &amp; Gamble&#39;s testosterone patch to treat female sexual dysfunction.
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Senate and U.S. House of Representatives tax negotiators on Tuesday rejected a bid to grant the Food and Drug Administration power to regulate tobacco but were set to approve a &#36;10 billion buyout for U.S. tobacco farmers as part of a big corporate tax bill.
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House Democrats on Thursday failed to override President Bush's veto of their pre-election year effort to expand a popular government health insurance program to cover 10 million children
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The House emphatically rejected a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage Thursday, the latest in a string of conservative pet causes advanced by Republican leaders in the run-up to Election Day.
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The House of Representatives on Thursday failed to override President George W. Bush's veto of a plan to expand a popular children's health care program and pay for it by raising tobacco taxes.