The Senate Appropriations Committee held its July 16 mark-up of the appropriations bill for FDA and related agencies, and the minority party again raised the specter of a government shutdown over the sequester.
Everybody thinks they're poor, but Uncle Sam does have an ongoing deficit problem, and these budget issues are showing up in interesting ways of late. Needless to say, these problems are affecting the appropriations process, but there may be an escape hatch, and a couple of items of interest for device makers may be at risk, depending on the outcome. Will user fees cure the Cures problem? It's time for the negotiations for the next round of device user fees, and the first meeting toward this end was a pretty chummy...