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Newsday (New York, NY)
July 16, 2000, Sunday NASSAU AND SUFFOLK
EDITION
SECTION: NEWS; Page A22
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HEADLINE:
BRIEFLY
BODY:
MEDICINE RUNS: Americans shopping for
cheaper prescription drugs in Canada and Mexico are technically breaking a
13-year-old law, and Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-Elmhurst) wants to change that. The
House on Monday passed a Crowley provision that would bar the Food and Drug
Administration from using funds to enforce the law that was intended to prevent
Americans from getting ill from medicines purchased in other countries.
Crowley's provision would allow people to bring back a personal supply of
medicine. "We're caught between people scoffing at the law and having a law on
the books that I don't think is meant for people like that," he said, referring
to people getting medicine for personal use.
BANKRUPTCY BILL: President
Bill Clinton has threatened to veto a bankruptcy overhaul bill if it does not
include an anti-violence provision from Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) Schumer's
measure would bar those convicted of crimes against abortion
clinics from declaring bankruptcy to avoid paying fines handed
down by courts. House and Senate negotiators have yet to settle differences in
their versions of the bill. The president said current language in the bill does
not go far enough; Schumer's proposal is one of three issues Clinton wants
resolved in any final bill. "Some have strategically abused the bankruptcy
system to avoid the penalties that Congress and the states have imposed for such
illegal acts," the president wrote in a letter to congressional leaders.
FISH COUNCIL: A Montauk woman last week won an appointment to
the Mid-Atlantic Marine Fisheries Council, a regional group that sets the
guidelines for the harvesting of fish stocks in the waters around Long Island.
Laurie Nolan, a 22-year veteran of the fishing industry, has served as a member
of the Tilefish Advisory Group for the fisheries council and as president of the
Montauk Tilefish Association. Last fall she successfully fought to raise the
tilefish quota after new data showed a healthier local population of the fish.
Nolan has worked in several recreational and commercial fishing industries,
including lobster, snapper, grouper, swordfish and tilefish. Rep. Michael Forbes
(D-Quogue) had urged former Commerce Secretary William Daley to appoint Nolan.
Agenda
The House and Senate are racing to finish up work
on annual spending bills before the major party nominating conventions begin
later this month.
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