Pennsylvania Rep. Joe Pitts (R) lambasted the FDA in a recent editorial, calling the watchdog agency an impediment to continued U.S. leadership in the global medical device field.
Pitts is chairman of the Health sub-committee of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, which has budget authority over the watchdog agency.
"We need the FDA to make sure that devices are safe, but we don’t need them to stand in the way of cures or jobs," Pitts wrote. "New inventions and cures will only come if inventors have a clear path to bring their product to market."