Consumers Union, the policy arm of Consumer Reports, appreciates Senators Leahy, Grassley, Klobuchar, and Lee’s continuing leadership in promoting competition, and specifically in promoting the availability of affordable generic alternatives to prescription drugs, as evidenced in the re-introduction by you, and other original cosponsors – Senators Feinstein, McCaskill, Collins, McCain, Blumenthal, Whitehouse, Cotton, and Durbin – of H.R. 974, the Creating and Restoring Equal Access to Equivalent Samples (“CREATES”) Act.