the FDA can either help make it happen or the FDA can close the doors to an entire industry

Bottom line, we are running out of time and we have to start making it happen.

Thank you for all of your service to our country and everything you do to protect Americans...

I also want to echo our request again, to have us included, the Buffalo and Rochester areas, if you can reconsider the Urban Area Initiative, security issues.

At the hearing, I discussed an amendment I introduced to the Department of Homeland Security Authorization bill--accepted by my colleagues--that would require the Department to purchase uniforms that are made in America.

Legislation to designate the San Juan Islands in Washington State as a National Conservation Area has been introduced in both the Senate by Senator Maria Cantwell and Senator Patty Murray and in the House by Representative Rick Larsen.

Less regulation plus less taxation plus less ligation equals more innovation and more job creation.

Eighty-five percent indicated that they are not looking for new workers.

We would like to see a sense of urgency coming from you to do more than just talk about issues.

The reality is, I was at a breakfast this morning and someone was asking for additional Federal money, only $21 million.

Well, we have got Obamacare, million dollars of tax increases now and fee increases, so we are not sure it is all about money.

The Obama administration basically has their boot on the neck of innovation.

Do you agree that the Institute of Medicine study on the 510(k) process was widely rejected? Yes or no.

I think we missed the boat during the last BRAC, the Base Realignment and Closure Commission, when we could have looked at some military facilities inventory domestically here that could have been utilized by the DHS.

I am a big proponent of a constitutional balanced budget amendment.

Thank you, Madam Secretary, for the cooperation of your agency.

in the new health care law that passed several years ago, there is a 2.3 percent tax on medical device companies, and it is expected to raise $20 billion over the next 10 years.

States with disclosure requirements--including two with some of the more stringent requirements, Wyoming and Colorado--provide detailed approaches to protection of trade secrets relating to the fracture stimulation fluid formulations.