"I want to thank the ranking member. Doctor, I appreciate you being here, for your testimony and for your service."
"However, with the proliferation of these technologies have come concerns about how their use may negatively impact patients."
"Electronic Health Records hold great promise for the delivery of care given and quality of care received in this country."
"So don't be scared. Look at the law, look at the reality, and don't listen to the political rhetoric which this week has been orchestrated very carefully by my Republican colleagues."
"Therefore, this hearing is an appropriate place to examine the extent to which the FDA and other federal agencies should be involved in regulation of health information technologies."
"I appreciate that. I am glad you mentioned Strong Start."
"Congress has acted, and in fact, when we had the Medical Devices User Fee Act in the last Congress, we specifically rejected in that bill a moratorium on FDA's use of its authority over medical device..."
"Now I am afraid that my Republican friends are going to spend this day making up false stories about how the Affordable Care Act and FDA regulation is stifling innovation--how our smartphones are goin..."
"I think it is up to Congress to decide what FDA's role should be."
"I believe, and I think all of our witnesses today will agree with me, that if a technology developer is going to make health-based claims, then there must be a role for FDA to ensure it is safe and ef..."
"I do believe that humanitarian aid--effective humanitarian aid--in this moment, is not only a moral obligation to the people that is in need, it is also a factor to help these move into the right dire..."
"Each one is a human tragedy, each person affected by the violence. I cannot even begin to imagine the horror that these families have lived through."
"when so many of the stakeholders in that region see the United States as not adequately providing its direction and leadership, there is a problem there."
"I think it is very important that the governments of the countries around that are in the first line of protection of the international community against the Syrian crisis, do receive all the solidari..."
"The hearing will come to order."
"You mentioned, Senator Casey, the flour program, where U.S. flour is reaching 50 bakeries that are feeding 210,000 people in the northern governates of Aleppo."
"I commended the effort undertaken by neighboring countries to leave their borders open."
"I would just urge us to coordinate our game plan better than we have in the past."
