Perhaps my colleague was not aware. that. un Tuesday. I notified the committee that this would be a possible agenda item for markup this week. However. it was not possible to forecast the arduous. timeconsuming immigration markup. which extended much longer than any of us had anticipated. In addition. Senator KENNEDY. the ranking member of the Labor Committee and a top member of Judiciary. expressed concerns about how the Judiciary Committees agenda was conflicting with the FDA reform markup this week in Labor. Accordingly. at the outset of the Judiciary Committees deliberations on the immigration bill this morning. I made the following statement: Finally. let me say a few words the Committees consideration of how certain GATT transition rules should apply to the generic drug industrythis is the socalled GATI patent issue. This was the subject of a lengthy floor debate on December 7th and a Committee hearing on February 27th.
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