A bipartisan group of nine senators, led by Jim Banks and including Tom Cotton and Adam Schiff, is pressing the FDA to crack down on online sellers using "for research use only" labels to sell unapproved drugs, pointing to a surge in knockoff versions of the experimental weight-loss drug retatrutide. Their Oct. 14 letter cites a 265% jump in related poisonings and asks for a briefing. TDFP first reports the letter.

Sen. Gary Peters, the top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security Committee, is demanding answers from DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin about what he calls wasteful spending and a lack of oversight of more than $260 billion Congress gave the department. His Oct. 14 letter cites Gulfstream G700 trips home to Oklahoma, a 12-plane purchase and border wall contracts signed for land the government cannot access. TDFP first reports the letter.