To begin with, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency inexplicably delayed notification of the spill to the Navajo Nation.

You took 2 days before you called them.

To put in your statement that you are working closely with the Navajo Nation is totally misleading.

Is it possible for FDA to trace adverse events and identify the source without a unique identifier in the name?

It was quick to dispatch staff to the Navajo communities to hand out Standard Form 95 and encourage members of the Navajo Nation to fill out forms to expedite settlement of their claims under the Federal Tort Claims Act, and apparently to…

The EPA must be held fully accountable for the accident.

I hope he has the guts to stand here and ask the President of the Navajo Nation if what we are doing here today is a farce.

Given the similarity between FDA's draft guidance and the World Health Organization's scheme on biologics qualifiers, it would be important to consult with a WHO in arriving at a global solution.

There are a lot of tradeoffs in the naming convention.

Has FDA analyzed, No. 1, the extent to which these cost of changing names is passed on to healthcare payers and consumers?

Just from what I've read, I have not seen the memo myself.

I have to tell you I am highly offended by those comments.

I want to know about overseas flights and how many of those are covered.

The bottom line is we could be doing better, we should be doing better, and this Nation must have us do better.

Energy production in the Gulf of Mexico is an energy lifeline for our Nation--today providing 17 percent of our domestic crude and 5 percent of our natural gas.

Many examples demonstrate how the Interior Department has been dead wrong in their so-called 'management' of Federal lands.

While production in the Gulf has remained relatively stagnant over the past several years, skyrocketing oil and natural gas production on state and private lands has propelled the United States to surpass Saudi Arabia and Russia to become…

I have been a Member of this body for nearly four decades. During that time, I have had the honor of participating in numerous debates that shaped the course of our future, but I can think of none more important than the one in which we…