We have convened this hearing this morning to examine the animal drug and animal generic drug user fee agreements that are due to be reauthorized this year--the Animal Drug User Fee Agreement, called ADUFA, and the Animal Generic Drug User Fee Agreement, called AGDUFA. These programs mirror the fee programs for human medical products that this committee shepherded through the Senate last Congress as part of the FDA Safety and Innovation Act. Both ADUFA and AGDUFA allow FDA to collect user fees from sponsors of animal drug and animal generic drug applications, and the Agency uses those fees to...

According to research by the Pew Research Center, the value of a college education has never been greater. No matter how you measure it, young college graduates do significantly better than their less-educated peers. College graduates earn higher salaries. They are more likely to work full-time, and they are less likely to be unemployed than their peers who do not attend college. Today, the income disparity between college graduates and those with a high school diploma is wider than at any time since this comparison was first tracked in 1965. Post-Secondary education is a primary goal for...