I think one of the things, we have got to close that loophole on requirement of reporting of internal findings of pathogens.

I will tell you, it is getting more and more around the country.

Right there, now they did not have to report to the FDA the findings of salmonella.

we have for far too long ignored our public health sector in this country.

Are you telling me that FDA knew that there was this plant in Texas that was not being inspected by the Texas Department of Agriculture?

Well, why not just--since the food component at FDA, and I will ask Dr. Sundlof, maybe he doesn't know, it is a smaller part of FDA than the whole drug regime is--why don't you just move that over to the Food Safety Inspection Service?

He'll bring that hands-on perspective to ONDCP.

He is a cop's cop and his perspective was shaped controlling the streets in Florida, New York, and Washington State.

These multi-agency Federal local partnerships require cooperation and compromise.

Gil Kerlikowske is the right man to address these challenges.

The drug war will not be won on the streets.

If confirmed as Secretary of Defense, I will do my utmost to strengthen the Department's financial management and internal controls designed to prevent fraud.

But it is disconcerting when you have an agency that gives out $6 billion, and you also have that same agency getting $3 billion on top of that in the stimulus package.

But what is the oversight of people higher up, that senior executives can be spending so much time doing non-productive work when they're on the taxpayer's payroll?

He was either fired or he quit before he was fired so he's no longer there, so he's not doing it. But what is the oversight of people higher up, that senior executives can be spending so much time doing non-productive work when they're on…

Senator Harkin, I've often heard you say that we have a 'sickcare system' not a health care system, and I couldn't agree more that it's time to change that.

The one on medical school, on helping medical students who want to go into primary care, forgiving their debts, loans, and stuff so that they have that incentive I think is something that we have to look at.

Maybe we have got to change the way we think about the classroom.