Senatorial caucus to discuss prescription-only status of PSE

WASHINGTON The Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control will hold a hearing on "The Status of Meth: Oregon's Experience Making Pseudoephedrine Prescription Only” on April 12 at 10 a.m. at the Dirksen Senate Office Building.

According to a report to be published that Monday in The Washington Daybook, scheduled participants include: Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., chair of the Caucus on International Narcotics Control; Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore.; Gil Kerlikowske, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy; Charles Ganley, director of the Office of Nonprescription Drug Products in the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research; Keith Cain, sheriff of Davies County, Ky.; Oregon Attorney General John Kroger; Linda Suydam, president of the Consumer Healthcare Products Association; and Kent Shaw, assistant chief of the California Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement.

Sens. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., also are members of the C.I.N.C.