House, Senate Appropriations Committees More Than Match Request For FDA
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
House and Senate appropriators made certain in their recommendations for fiscal 2008 appropriations that FDA would be given opportunity to extend the scope of its oversight, with both houses of Congress more than matching the President's request
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