Republican U.S. Senator Mirk Kirk is joining Democratic U.S. Senator Dick Durbin to urge states to join Illinois' lead in improving school's access to EpiPen injectors. Epinephrine can save students lives if they have severe allergic reactions.
Kirk a bill he and Durbin are introducing a bill that allows non-nurses to be trained to use the injectors and have Good Samaritan laws in place.
Kirk says students with severe allergies are allowed to give themselves an epinephrine shot. But a quarter of cases at schools involve students with no previous allergy who are unlikely to have an EpiPen injector.
On another topic, Kirk calls Rick Perry brain freeze during a GOP debate in Michigan last week, "The implosion of the last credible rival to Mitt Romney."
Perry could not recall the third of three government agencies he says he would eliminate if elected President. Kirk tells WMBD's Greg and Dan he has yet to endorse a GOP Presidential candidate, but, "There are the folks in the Mitt camp and folks in the anyone but Mitt camp."
"First they were with Sarah Palin, then Trump, then Bachman, then Perry now they're kind of gravitating towards Newt," says Kirk. "But, it's clear Romney is ahead in the early primary polls. This thing is about a month from being completely wrapped up."
Kirk says the GOP candidate who will come out top is one who is socially moderate, competent and - in his words - "a complete fiscal conservative."
