While this season's vaccine has lower-than-usual effectiveness, CDC is still recommending vaccination for everyone 6 months or older.

In other words, the American people were stuck with a vaccine that wasn't going to work for nearly 4 out of 5 people and nearly 9 out of 10 seniors.

America is experiencing a severe flu season with an unstable predominant strain that could result in one of the deadliest and costliest flu seasons in recent memory.

Last February, when public health officials needed to decide what strains would go into this year's seasonal flu vaccine, the FDA bet on the wrong predominant strain.

by virtue of us continuing this process, erroneously now with this mismatch, we have 50,000 Americans who are going to die this year.

this whole process of designating which vaccine we are going to come up with in September just seems archaic.

Although he made a number of very sensible recommendations, we heard at our hearing last September that the CSB chairman failed to adequately address these problems, and in fact, had created a dysfunctional work environment.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Is there anybody on the panel who disagrees with the need for a more robust rail tank car than the DOT-111s?

So if we have a--if we had a known design, and a time period in which to phase it in, you know, people could figure out, you know, how they're going to amortize that investment, what the investment is, and decide whether or not…

Aviation security is a truly collaborative effort.

Major deficiencies exist right now within our airport security systems.

I want to express my eagerness to work with you and with all the Members of this subcommittee to do absolutely everything we can to maximize the security of our aviation sector.

The Transportation Security Administration's mission is to protect the Nation's transportation systems to ensure freedom of movement for people and commerce.

We do appreciate the work that you are doing.

Okay. Then can you speculate, or maybe you can give an answer as to why your investigation would have been impeded?

In regard to a timely fashion, then, particularly where it involves political appointees, would that--could that be considered an act of running out the clock?

That is a little heavy-handed.

The safe transport of oil and gas from the production sites, which are becoming more and more dispersed in the U.S. with fracking technology, both to refineries and to consumers, is critical.