Dear Mr. Leavitt:
Thank you for contacting me to express your support for vapor and electronic cigarette products.I appreciate you taking the time to contact me. I value your views on the important issues facing our Commonwealth and the Nation.
As you may know, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed a rule that would require e-cigarette manufacturers to attain "premarket" approval for any products released after February15th, 2007 as part of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009, and for those products to attain an approval within two years. The proposed rule has been published in the Federal Register and additional information can be found by following this
link.
You may be interested to know, that in an effort to address this rule, Representative Tom Cole of Oklahoma introduced H.R. 2058, the FDA Deeming Authority Act of 2015. This legislation would prevent the FDA from banning vapor and electronic cigarette products that have been released on the market since 2007, moving the effective date from 2007 to the date of the finalized deeming regulation by the FDA. By doing so, the bill would allow all vapor and electronic cigarette products to remain on the consumer market, pending approval by the FDA. I am pleased to you inform you that I am a cosponsor of H.R. 2058.
Currently, H.R. 2058 has been referred to the House Energy and Commerce and the subcommittee on Health. Please be assured that as a cosponsor of H.R. 2058 I will keep your thoughts in mind should the bill come before the full House of Representatives for a vote. I am continuing to receive and evaluate comments on this bill from the constituents of the First District and will monitor this issue as it evolves and progresses through the legislative process.
Thank you again for sharing your views and opinions with me on the important issues facing our Nation.I pledge to you that I will continue to work hard on your behalf and to fight for the principles that will continue to make this Nation great. I honestly would not be able to serve the First Congressional District of Virginia without hearing from great folks like you. As we move forward, your input on these pivotal issues will be extremely important, so please keep in touch with me via telephone at
(202) 225-4261, through my website (
www.wittman.house.gov), on Facebook (
www.facebook.com/reprobwittman), or via Twitter (
www.twitter.com/robwittman).
With kind regards, I remain
Sincerely,
Rob Wittman
Member of Congress