The creation of the national infrastructure development bank to leverage private and public capital to finance nationally and regionally significant infrastructure projects is a proposal that I have been highly supportive of for many years.

I am greatly disappointed to see that the current majority of this subcommittee seems to have already reached a conclusion on this topic by entitling the hearing, 'National Infrastructure Bank: More Bureaucracy and More Red Tape.'

We want common sense. We want to know that the FDA and the FTC and the working group are actually collaborating.

I would like to thank the Health Subcommittee, their staff, for their hard work with today, as well as the subcommittee and members of the CMT Subcommittee.

By sodium, it would be good--you also do mean MSG, right?

But then again I think that those of us say that we just don't yet see a major impact on the childhood obesity rate by what we are trying to do here.

And this is the frustration that somebody like I have with the fact that the agencies don't talk to one another.

It is time we return government to the people and rein in Washington's culture of senseless regulation.

I think we are at a point where I wouldn't say that there is clear convergence between the working group and industry, but the gap has been narrowed.

Our job is to design the perfect glass, and I just don't think we have done it yet.

Today, the evidence is all around us. There is an indisputable link between childhood obesity and diabetes.

I think you all are trying to throw a panacea out there.

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Big government is no replacement for parental involvement in our children's everyday lives and their understanding of the food that they consume, what they eat and the individuals that they become.

I am convinced that our children have to get active.

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Children's health and well-being are paramount. I think we can all agree on that.

But you are not certain.