Mr. President, this amendment, to my mind, is an extremely important amendment and it has the support of some of the major consumer organizations in our country, including Public Citizen, U.S. PIRG, the Consumer Federation of America…

Mr. President, first of all, I congratulate my colleague from Iowa and my colleague from Wyoming for the bipartisanship of this legislation. The FDA amendments of 2007 mandated basic public results reporting for all clinical trials…

Mr. President, today we will be considering and are considering a vital piece of legislation that not only includes all four user fee agreements but also includes policy proposals to improve the Food and Drug Administration review and…

Mr. President, I rise for the purpose of calling up amendment No. 2129. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The assistant legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Iowa [Mr. Grassley], proposes an…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the reading of the amendment be dispensed with. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendment is as follows: (Purpose: To provide deadlines for the issuance of certain…

I call up amendment No. 2121. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. The bill clerk read as follows: The Senator from Iowa [Mr. Grassley] proposes an amendment numbered 2121.

I ask unanimous consent that the reading of the amendment be dispensed with. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendment is as follows: (Purpose: To provide employee protections for the Commissioned Corps of…

Madam President, the bill before us, S. 3187, did not address a top priority of mine, and that is ensuring whistleblowers have adequate protections. Four months ago my office learned of a very abusive treatment by the FDA on certain…

Mr. President, I rise today to talk about the importance of passing the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act, more commonly known as the user fee reauthorization bill. This bipartisan legislation would reauthorize the…

Mr. President, this bill means so much to my State. I spoke earlier today about the need to improve the approval process at the FDA, and this bill will speed that up with the agreement reached between industry and the FDA on the fees. I…

If the buying stops, the killing can too.

I think the area we have to focus on here--and we are in discussion--with China is with respect to domestic controls...

Thank you, Chairman Kerry, for calling this hearing, and thank you to our witnesses for everything you are doing.

I was left haunted by the destruction to God's creation caused by human conflict.

I know that my ranking minority, Senator Isakson, and I reflect what is a broad community across the House and Senate, Republican and Democrat, who care deeply about Africa and who welcome your effort to make certain that we put…

I just wanted to follow up briefly with some questions since I have an opportunity to meet with folks who might be relevant...

Mr. President, I thank my friend from Kansas for finishing his speech in a timely manner. I come to the floor to talk a little bit about the DISCLOSE Act and Citizens United. For the last 2\1/2\ years, Americans have heard us talk about…

Mr. President, if I may say this: Senator Kirk, as you know, has worked very closely with me on this matter, and we have many other Senators--Gillibrand, Schumer, Rockefeller--so many people who are having this problem in their States…