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  • Fort Report: Are Our Drugs Safe?

    Jeff Fortenberry, NE-01|Mar 17, 2021

    Drug Administration (FDA) gets on inspection of our drugs, according to the director of health care at the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The GAO recently conducted an extensive study on the safety of our drug supply and discovered that FDA is failing to inspect drug manufacturing facilities overseas. Some facilities have not been inspected for five years or more. Some have never been inspected. “This is fascinatingly scary,” one Nebraskan told me after my questions as Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on...

  • The Fort Report

    Jeff Fortenberry, Congressman|Feb 24, 2021

    Here’s a tweet I wrote this week: “I’ve been in meetings with @BillGates. I respect his intellect and desire for social responsibility by the world’s wealthy. On this idea, though, maybe he should come to #Nebraska and learn a little more. #NoFakeMeat.” I was responding to an interview Gates did for the MIT Tech Review in which the Microsoft co-founder opined on climate change: “I do think all rich countries should move to 100 percent synthetic beef. You can get used to the taste difference, and the claim is they’re going to make...

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