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| September 23, 2004 | COPYRIGHT 2001 Knight Ridder Washington Bureau. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Tony Pugh

WASHINGTON _ Peter Rost, a drug industry executive and the most controversial advocate of importing cheaper prescription drugs from foreign countries, joined fellow supporters in Congress on Thursday to call for a Senate vote on making the practice legal.

The vice president of marketing at Pfizer Inc., Rost recently turned heads when he became the drug industry's first executive to dispute the industry's longstanding argument that importing prescription drugs was unsafe.

On Thursday, Rost met with Capitol Hill lawmakers from both parties who share his view. Among them were Sens. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., and Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, who…

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