families across the country deserve an FDA Commissioner who is going to help protect them from unsafe food or drugs and who will always put science over politics.

I have great confidence in the job Dr. Hamburg will do as commissioner of the FDA.

I hope you will drive that home because once we have the highest facilities with the best equipment, then we will be able to attract some of the best scientists.

I think that is a very helpful review for the public to understand.

the smartest investments that was made by the Federal Government was actually the chickens.

It just seems so painfully obvious that we must have a mechanism that addresses problems that exist throughout a corporate structure.

I have been a proponent of trying to narrow this difference between crack and powder cocaine for years.

We are not winning this war on drugs at all, in my opinion, and we need a better system.

I think we have far too many people who are drug addicted in jail. We have got to find a better system than what we have now.

We need to come up with a better way of handling these kids that otherwise have not had much of a chance.

I recognize, clearly, that even if you are the not musically inclined, everyone should learn to play the piano.

All kids should have auditoriums in their school, so they are simply taught how to be an audience.

But it seems President Obama wants to stop the music and send the band home.

The arts district that he has created has really revitalized that part of the town.

The importance of exposing our children. We are lucky to be in a school district that my kids do have art every week.

I certainly, Mr. Chairman, respect your concerns about tax inequity.

Martin Feldstein...wrote an op-ed piece in The Washington Post yesterday about this very subject.

I want to very much associate myself with Congresswoman Slaughter's testimony, and three points in particular.