Margaret A. Hamburg: “We shouldn't have different standards depending on where the test was developed.”

I believe our fiscal year 2014 budget efficiently targets our needs, focusing on programs that are essential to providing Americans with the safe foods and effective medical products they expect and deserve.

As I said, we are going to have to make very difficult choices. We are not going to be able to do all the things the Congress has asked us to do and that the American people expect us to do.

Much remains to be learned about the risks of e-cigarettes to health, as well as their possible benefits, particularly for those smokers who have not been able to quit using deadly conventional cigarettes.

Congress has been beneficial in our ability to respond in a number of ways, certainly the supplemental funds that were given for Ebola will make a significant difference.