Honorable Sander Levin
United States Representative, Michigan, Democrat
Representative Levin, of the Twelfth District of Michigan, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1982. He was a member of the Oakland (Michigan) Board of Supervisors from 1961 to 1964 and the Michigan Senate from 1964 to 1970. He serves on the Ways and Means Committee, where he is the Ranking Minority Member of the Trade Subcommittee. The following is from the July 24, 2003, House floor debate on H.R. 2427, the Pharmaceutical Market Access Act. Tonight I vote for H.R. 2427 with some reservations. I have put those reservations aside because this is not the…