How the bitter political fight over painkillers could derail Biden's FDA pick-politico: Joe Biden’s pick to head the Food and Drug Administration was supposed to be an easy one. But two months into his presidency, the search for a commissioner to run a health agency critical to the pandemic response has become a drawn-out and messy affair, vexing administration officials and threatening to disrupt a rare period of harmony on health care within the Democratic Party, according to more than a half-dozen current and former officials and people familiar with the deliberations.
