I'm concerned, because this subcommittee put a lot of money--$15 billion through this subcommittee, since fiscal year 2006--for pandemic pre...
I don't understand how this fund--the Strategic Investor Fund----would work different from BARDA.
Future attacks remain a very real threat. Yet, we are still using the same anthrax vaccine that was developed 40 years ago.
The fact that we were using 60-year-old technologies to make important vaccines like H1N1 was one of the reasons that Senator Graham and Tal...
I just think we're relying too much on the FDA.
Now, that's a good idea. I like that.
And thank all of you for your testimonies, and for your work in this field, and your leadership in this field.
It's got great bipartisan support. It's being held up a little bit, but it's going to pass.
We know flu is here... we know there are a lot of other strains of flu out there.
I'd like to start thinking about it now, and looking at it.
I mean, it's just--it's just very difficult to do that, okay? It's just difficult.
Is anthrax the major threat that we have that we should be worried about with regard to bioterrorism?
I'm not going to sign off on it. That's $200 million.
Despite all those improvements, a continuing vulnerability is our dependence on egg-based technology to produce influenza vaccines.
What we can do, if we properly fund these programs, and manage them, Mr. Chairman, vice chairman, we can push the decimal point to the left,...
It's sometimes said that, while the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee defends America, this subcommittee actually defines America.
Most shocking is how these frauds went undetected for years by SEC, despite repeated warnings and tips.
It is very important to have these oversight hearings, particularly within 1 year after FERA has been passed.
