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Article: New bill to curb sales of pseudoephedrine to be unveiled.
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- St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO)
- Article date:
- May 20, 2005
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Byline: Deirdre Shesgreen
WASHINGTON _ On a bitterly cold February morning, a half dozen lobbyists filed into Sen. Jim Talent's conference room for a tense, 90-minute meeting with one of the Missouri lawmaker's top aides.
The lobbyists represented an array of powerful business interests, from deep-pocketed drug companies to retail giants such as Wal-Mart and Target to the nation's convenience store industry. They were there to talk about a bill Talent, R-Mo., and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D- Calif., had introduced three weeks earlier proposing sharp new curbs on the sale of popular cold medicines containing a key ingredient used to make methamphetamine.
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