CSE also opposed funding a modernised FDA building, one of Kessler's priorities.67 CSE chairman, C Boyden Gray, testified against the building in Congress, citing the FDA's overregulation and growing bureaucracy, and attacked FDA's slow approval of drugs.67 CSE also tried to reallocate FDA resources to product approval process by partnering with former CSE fellow representative David McIntosh (R-IN) to freeze the Office of the Commissioner's budget.68 In 2000, after a tobacco industry lawsuit, the Supreme Court ruled that the FDA did not have authority to regulate tobacco products.69 Opposing the federal RICO lawsuit against the tobacco industry President Clinton announced in his 1999 State of the Union address that the DOJ was planning a case against the tobacco industry to recover smoking-induced Medicare funds under the RICO Act.70 In February 1999, Philip Morris's vice president of federal government affairs outlined three strategic goals for fighting the lawsuit: (1) to fight the US$20 million dollar appropriation for the lawsuit

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