The final vote was 51-48 with 60 votes needed for passage.
Democrats who voted against Drug Re-Importation were:
akaka, baucus, burris, bayh, cantwell, carper, carden, casey, durbin, gillibrand, hagan, inouye, kauffman, kerry, kirk, landrieu, lautenberg, levin, lieberman, menendez, mikulski, murray, reed, reid, rockefeller, schumer, udall CO,tester, warner & whitehouse
An administration-backed "killer amendment" sponsored by Senator Lautenberg was voted on also but it is totally a sham. The Dorgan Amendment to HCR would allow drug-reimportation from a few certain western countries with verifiable chain-of-command similar to ours. Presently Americans pay the R&D costs for the entire world through drug prices that are often 10 times that in Europe or Canada.
Barrack Obama was a co-sponsor of the drug re-importation bill in the past. But now the phony concern is that "counterfeit" drugs may enter the US (which has nothing to do with a legal re-importation process).
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