Senate Health Committee To Vote On OTC, Opioid Bills April 24

On April 24, the Senate health committee will vote on bipartisan opioid and over-the-counter drug monograph reform legislation, but it will not mark up a cosmetic reform bill as previously promised by the committee chair, the committee announced Tuesday (April 17). The committee will vote on its bipartisan opioid legislation package, the Opioid Crisis Response Act of 2018 , which committee Chair Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and ranking Democrat Patty Murray (WA) introduced on April 4. The bill includes a number...