Ron Kirk in The Associated Press


On Jobs: Kirk will be strong voice for undocumented workers

Kirk received the endorsement of the United Farm Workers union. Union officials said they see him as one who will champion their issues: higher wages and a safer workplace for farmhands, legal protections for undocumented immigrants, and better housing and services in the Rio Grande Valley. Kirk said he would be a voice for undocumented workers, and that he supports a bill pending in Congress that would grant amnesty to hundreds of thousands of immigrants living illegally in the U.S.
Source: T.A. Badger, Associated Press Apr 3, 2002

On Health Care: Continue safety testing of adult medicines given to children

Ron Kirk asked a Washington lawmaker to “intervene directly” in a plan to suspend safety testing of adult medicines commonly given to children. “I urge you in the strongest possible terms to use your considerable influence to persuade the FDA to preserve the pediatric rule that provides such critical safety and dosage information for parents, physicians and children. Suspension of this rule would pit the pharmaceutical industry’s profits against the protection of our children.”
Source: Lisa Falkenberg, Associated Press Mar 22, 2002

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