The FDA needs to focus on its mission, ensuring that drugs are safe.

The popular claim that condoms help prevent the spread of STDs is not supported by the data.

Latex condoms, when used consistently and correctly, are highly effective in preventing the transmission of HIV.

The public wants drugs approved and out as fast as possible, and the FDA is under a lot of pressure to get drugs approved and marketed quickly. But the other side of that is there are problems with drugs that they don't find out about in…

Now, yesterday we had a hearing where the FDA didn't do its job on policing the vaccine manufacturer, that then ended up not being able to produce half the vaccine supply for flu in this country. So FDA is really not doing its job…

FDA is really not doing its job adequately.

I think it's the Food and Drug Administration's responsibility. They're supposed to assure the public that when a drug is permitted to be marketed it has been carefully scrutinized to be safe and effective.

If we're going to have a fast approval process, we have to have even a stronger follow up. But FDA is failing its job in a number of areas. They're not doing the follow up. They're not doing the oversight. They're not enforcing the rules.

they, not Pentagon auditors, were the first to blow the whistle on the high price the U.S. was paying for Kuwaiti gas.

I rise in support of what will be offered as a motion to recommit. Title 32 of this bill contains provisions which would restructure the Department of Energy to create a new National Nuclear Security Administration. I do not question the…

this bill was supposed to be about financial services, but it actually contains the most severe invasion of Americans' right to medical privacy ever considered by the Congress. As the L.A. Times wrote in an editorial today, ``not a shred…

This bill does not provide taxpayers subsidies for abortion. This bill before us is an appropriation to fund the Food and Drug Administration. The Food and Drug Administration receives applications from those private industries that…

I will insert for the Record a statement from the Food and Drug Administration where they say very clearly they do not read the gentleman's amendment as he does. Their lawyers have said this will prevent them from dealing with any drug…

the purpose of this bill is for one purpose only. It would delay the Bureau of the Census from getting the report to the States in time for them to redistrict using the most accurate statistically approved methods to get the count that…

I was surprised when this amendment was narrowly defeated last year because it would take the same philosophy for unfunded mandates, for economic considerations, and apply it to other equally important values. I want to emphasize again…

there is wide agreement in this country that violent and sexually explicit programming desensitizes children and can influence their behavior and emotional development. But changes in society and technology have made it more difficult for…

let us be clear what the Smith-Livingston amendment is all about. It is not to improve family planning around this country. It is not for women to get better access to primary care, which they now get under the existing title X program…

I rise in opposition to the adoption of the conference report on H.R. 483, a bill to permit Medicare select policies to be offered in all States. Let me state that I oppose adoption of this conference report reluctantly. We have underway…

it seems to me the gentleman makes a very good case for San Diego and he ought to get his waiver under existing law. But the point I want to make to the gentleman, it is not in any way denigrating your case, but in our situation, the local…

I do want to make a clear distinction between the San Diego situation and the Los Angeles-Santa Monica Bay situation. Under existing law, San Diego can get a waiver, and I think you are making an excellent case for that waiver. But if this…

the level of Medicare and Medicaid cuts would gut health care for the elderly and the poor leading to rationing of health care to those people to whom we promised health security: $400 billion over 7 years; that is a breathtaking amount…

Mr. Chairman, if I might on our side conclude the debate, I would say this is an important consumer protection effort. As we go down the road of Medicare select, going from 15 States to 50, I worry about what it is going to mean for…

Mr. Chairman, I found the comments of the gentleman from California very interesting because many of us who support the Waxman amendment are strong supporters of 21st century Medicare that uses managed care to a much greater extent. In…

I must say I am absolutely astounded by the comments of the gentleman from California [Mr. Thomas] a minute or two ago on the House floor. He seems to ignore the whole history of this proposal and then mischaracterizes what is at issue…

I do find it startling to think that people would come in and question others' motives. Questioning people's motives just seems to me so out of place in a debate where we are trying to make the best decisions we can. We look at the…