A U.S. senator on Monday said he dropped plans to try to add a measure allowing importation of lower-priced medicines from other countries to tobacco legislation after being told the Senate will consider the drug issue separately.

Democratic Senator Byron Dorgan said that Majority Leader Harry Reid had promised to bring the drug importation measure to a Senate vote “very soon.” Dorgan said he expected the vote to happen within “a matter of a couple weeks.”

Last week, Dorgan said he planned to offer the importation measure as an amendment to a pending bill that would grant the Food and Drug Administration power to regulate cigarettes.

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