Katie Porter actually said...

"I think one of the concerns is, without the kind of work that you are doing, without digging into that research, we can't accurately count how many wildlife-related cases there are."

"Congress provides far less funding for the Department of the Interior to monitor diseases in wildlife than it does for the Department of Agriculture to monitor diseases in domesticated animals."

"We've unfortunately all learned that late detection can cost lives."

"We are here today to discuss a topic with consequences we all know too well: the threat of wildlife-borne diseases becoming pandemics."