Reply #6: here is the only on the record reason in the Senate record - from Mikulski

[karynnj]

Ms. MIKULSKI. Mr. President, I oppose this amendment. First, it is a budget buster. To enforce this will take enormous amounts of resources. You cannot be sure that that drug coming from Canada is not a counterfeit, lethal death drug. You don't have any enforcement procedures in here, you don't have the money to enforce it, and we have a history of phony drugs coming into rogue Web sites through counterfeit countries.

If you want a drug that has been made in a country that we view as predators toward the United States, when you take your Coumadin, when you want your wife to take her breast cancer drug, when your daughter is going to take that birth control bill, then you want the Vitter amendment. But if you want safety, then defeat the amendment.

I don't quite understand how it's a budget buster - unless she is saying that there will be lower taxes coming from Pharms because of lower earning - ignoring that net people save. Don't we have the same enormous resources trying to keep the drugs out now?