GOP Launches Caucus to Promote Medicine Production in America

A congressional caucus focused on bringing pharmaceutical manufacturing to US shores will launch Thursday as Republicans seek to further the Trump administration’s goals of boosting medicine production in America.

Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Ga.), health chair on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, will announce the American-Made Medicines Caucus along with Reps. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) and Gus Bilirakis (R-Fla.). The group of lawmakers will focus on ways to bring the pharmaceutical supply chain to the US and be less dependent on nations like China for pharmaceutical products.

“China determines whether we have the pharmaceutical products we need in the United States ...