{"id":2015944,"date":"2023-08-29T18:27:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T22:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congress-must-end-severe-prescription-drug-shortage-gop-governors-tell-mccarthy-and-schumer\/"},"modified":"2023-08-29T18:28:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T22:28:38","slug":"congress-must-end-severe-prescription-drug-shortage-gop-governors-tell-mccarthy-and-schumer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congress-must-end-severe-prescription-drug-shortage-gop-governors-tell-mccarthy-and-schumer\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP governors urge McCarthy and Schumer to address &#8216;severe&#8217; drug shortage in Congress."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcongress-must-end-severe-prescription-drug-shortage-gop-governors-tell-mccarthy-and-schumer%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2015944&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Republican Governors Demand \u2063Bipartisan Action on Drug Shortages<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Republican\u2063 governors from\u200c 11 states have sent a letter to leaders in Congress, urging them to take bipartisan action on the pervasive drug shortages affecting various medical conditions and sectors of the healthcare\u200d industry.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;To date, little \u200chas been done \u200dto address this\u200c crisis,&#8221; wrote Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD), the primary author of\u2063 the letter. &#8220;States \u200dare taking what limited action we can to combat prescription drug shortages, but to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-carolina-education-group-launches-schoolhouse-shock-program-to-document-extremism-in-the-classroom\/\" title=\"North Carolina Education Group Launches \u2018Schoolhouse Shock\u2019 Program To Document Extremism In The Classroom\">create real change<\/a>, the states need Washington to take action.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Major Lithium Deals\u2062 Dominated by Chinese Firms, Study Finds<\/h3>\n<p>The Food and Drug Administration currently lists 136 drugs\u200b as being in shortage. This includes antibiotics like penicillin and \u200dclindamycin, pain medications such as morphine and lidocaine, cancer drugs like methotrexate, and cardiac medication such as atropine and digoxin.<\/p>\n<p>Other \u200ccritical pharmaceutical supplies, such as sterile water for wound irrigation, sodium chloride for IV fluids, and dextrose for blood sugar stabilization, are also limited.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These shortages are not new, but \u2062they are becoming more frequent and severe,&#8221; wrote\u200b the governors. &#8220;Pharmacists in our states are having to inform patients that critical medicine \u200cis unavailable. Nobody should\u2062 have to experience that kind of worry, especially not in the United States of America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The letter, \u200daddressed \u200dto Speaker of the House Kevin\u2064 McCarthy (R-CA), House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Senate\u200b Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), emphasizes the need for bipartisan solutions to the national crisis, particularly in strengthening transparency on pharmaceutical supply\u2064 chain issues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The FDA\u2062 and medical companies are currently \u2064restricted\u200d by federal law when\u200b it comes to their transparency policies,&#8221; wrote the governors. &#8220;The American people deserve \u2062to know the truth about where their prescription\u200c drugs\u2063 come from and how they\u200b are quality tested, especially when those drugs are \u200bsourced from overseas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The governors, including Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX), \u2064Gov. Kim\u2063 Reynolds (R-IA), and Gov. Sarah Sanders (R-AR), among others, also proposed\u2064 changing regulatory policies to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congress-must-end-severe-prescription-drug-shortage-gop-governors-tell-mccarthy-and-schumer\/\" title=\"GOP governors urge McCarthy and Schumer to address 'severe' drug shortage in Congress.\">boost\u2064 domestic pharmaceutical\u2063 manufacturing<\/a>, reviewing FDA guidance on medication expiration\u2063 dates, and allowing\u200c waivers for purchasing medications from Canada.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click here<\/a> to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These practical steps towards greater\u2063 transparency and flexibility will ensure \u200bsafety and reliability in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-republican-candidate-david-mccormick-calls-for-whole-nation-strategy-to-combat-chinese-influence\/\" title=\"Exclusive \u2014 Republican Candidate David McCormick Calls for \u2018Whole Nation Strategy\u2019 to Combat Chinese Influence\">pharmaceutical supply chain<\/a>,&#8221; the governors stated.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Examiner reached\u200c out to the offices\u2064 of McCarthy,\u2063 Jeffries, Schumer, and McConnell for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>calling on Congress to take immediate action to address the widespread drug shortages affecting various medical conditions and healthcare sectors. 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Kristi Noem (R-SD), leading the effort, emphasized the urgent need for bipartisan collaboration, stating that insufficient measures have been taken thus far to tackle this crisis.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2015945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2015944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2015945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}