consumer has the pleasure of paying twice the cost of the canadian sciewrnl. but it's not just canadian, it's french, italian, it's great britain, it's almost every other industrialized country that praise peyse a fraction of the price -- pays a fraction of the price than we do. why should the american consumer be charged the highest prices in the world for this prescription drug? because those who apply the price have the ability to do it. and some of us, senator mccain, myself, senator kennedy, senator grassley, republicans and democrats, senator snowe, especially, my cosponsor, on the reimportation of prescription drug legislation, some of us believe that the american people ought to have the ability and the advantage of the world marketplace to purchase that identical prescription drug, f.d.a. approved, produced at an f.d.a.-inspected plant, to be able to purchase it from anywhere in the world at a fraction of the price. we've put together legislation that dramatically improves the safety of our drug -- prescription drug supply in our country and the drugs