"The record shows that CDC had ample warnings and should have been focused on the problems in their high containment labs long before the June anthrax release."
"Like all of us, I am deeply troubled by what we have learned about this incident."
"This is obviously an alarming series of failures, but there were other problems at CDC that made this incident worse."
"We cannot legislate. We can do a lot, but we cannot legislate a culture change. It has to come from within the Agency."
"I would just hope that we would have this panel back in the fall after Dr. Frieden completes his investigation and puts his controls in place."
"But with all due respect, we are not overreacting here. This has got to be solved."
"There is really no one agency in charge, is that correct?"
"There is an increasing number of labs that are handling these bioagents, correct?"
"I have been told for each dollar we spend, we save more than a dollar."
"Medicare fraud wastes money and endangers the care of seniors and the disabled."
"These switches were bad from the start; they should have never been installed"