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As Senator Murray indicated, it is ironic that we have addressed and modernized the FDA in so many other areas but not in this one.

Yet that company, that personal care products company, is not required to report to the FDA about adverse events.

I just hope the evolution takes a little less time than the evolution of human beings.

I want to be sure I understand the full implications of that decision, not only on the victims' families, but also on other United States interests around the world.

We had a budget agreement, we had a number, and we still can't get it done.

What's really holding things up, as I understand it, are riders that have nothing to do with the budget, that have to do with policy preferences of various individuals.

I think we ought to be clear about what it is that's gotten us here.

When I was the State treasurer up in Maine, I came from the private sector and we were trying to do things quite differently to save as much money as we could for our taxpayers.

The reason it was withdrawn... is because there were so many of us that made such a stink that it is a bad idea to tax college savings plans

Why wouldn't you continue to withhold those payments until they stopped sponsoring terrorism? Why wouldn't you do that?

You will stand up against any attempt to tax retirement savings.

Last year your Administration... floated a horrible idea, which was to tax college savings plans. Do you agree that was a very bad idea?

Do you also agree that untraceable cash is the currency of terrorism?

I think this is another real problem because the system is not supposed to work that way.

The idea of a brand name company simply swapping the label on its product and then issuing it as a generic strikes me as greatly reducing the incentive for a true first generic to come on the market.

Essentially what Mylan is doing, as you confirmed, is just changing the label on its product and then selling it for a lower price.

We found that certain drug companies were putting their brand name drugs into restricted distribution systems.

Directing 84 percent of HUD's budget to rental assistance might be reasonable if it were to effectively meet the housing needs of all vulnerable families and individuals.