In Maine, we set a horrific new record, 636 people died from drug overdoses.

I hope that we will be able to fill it.

Could you please explain to the subcommittee how the Department can justify arguing in court that the pandemic has subsided enough to warrant the termination of Title 42?

Congress charged the FDA, not CMS, to be the agency responsible for evaluating the safety and efficacy of biomedical products.

I have heard serious concerns that FDA is responding to some meeting requests with a 'written response only.'

In light of the decision by CMS, do you question the FDA's decisionmaking regarding Aduhelm's accelerated approval?

We have had a great success, I believe, and we have got another agency of the Federal Government that just absolutely cut our legs out from under us.

What concerns me in this case is not FDA's approach. I think you stayed within your lanes.

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the deadline really does need to be moved. Of course, myself, and most, well, all of the Maine delegation opposed the regulations to begin with.

I have never seen a better example of unjustified regulations, just completely unsupported by data.

This isn't like the Department of Agriculture or the Department of Commerce... We're it.

A secret agency is an anomaly in a democracy.

Are you willing to say no to the Director of the CIA, and the President of the United States?

Drug development is hamstrung by the fact that we simply do not have well characterized the endpoints for most rare diseases.