Exempting User Fees From Sequester Could Take Flight

Support on Capitol Hill to remove FDA user fees from the budget sequester appears to be growing, and the effort is being boosted by comparing it to a recent deal allowing the Federal Aviation Administration to avoid furloughs.

A bipartisan group of members from the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA and Related Agencies is concerned about some of FDA’s user fees, paid by industry, being...