On September 25th, almost 2 months after the first advisory received by the hospital, Thomas Eric Duncan showed up at Texas Presbyterian with a fever that spiked up to 103 and he told the personnel that he had come from Liberia.

I think that we have had a lot of discussion today about a lot of issues, and my takeaway is this...

Now, your August 22nd protocols say people who are being monitored should not travel by commercial conveyances, don't they?

It looks like the first nurse, Ms. Pham, was exposed in the first couple of days before the diagnosis came in?

Ebola has an incubation period of about 21 days and is not contagious until the person with the virus begins to be symptomatic beginning often with a fever, correct?

This is a humanitarian crisis, and we have a moral imperative to help in West Africa.

Ebola is transmitted through contact with a patient's bodily fluids including vomit, blood, feces, and saliva, and the virus concentrates more heavily as the patient becomes sicker...

Access to good quality mental health treatment can reduce risk.

We haven't had high-quality psychological care, particularly for adolescents.

one thing we tried to do when we passed the Affordable Care Act is, we tried to give people mental health coverage

Suicide takes the lives of about 40,000 Americans every year, and of course, that leaves behind millions of devastated parents, children, spouses, and friends.

In Colorado, there are 240,000 State residents who were previously uninsured but who now have quality affordable health coverage because of the Affordable Care Act.

I don't really think we could go on August recess without having another hearing on the Affordable Care Act, because this is now the twelfth one we have had in the last 10 years.

So, obviously, people were able to utilize those Web sites to get health insurance, is that right?

I agree with most of those recommendations.

Now, up till now, even despite the admitted problems with the Web site, 8 million people enrolled in the marketplaces, is that correct?

So I agree that it is important to make the Federal exchange Web site, and also the States, work as well for people.

Like all of us, I am deeply troubled by what we have learned about this incident.

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?

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.

There has never been one agency in charge despite the red flags going up all of these years?

We cannot legislate. We can do a lot, but we cannot legislate a culture change. It has to come from within the Agency.

This is obviously an alarming series of failures, but there were other problems at CDC that made this incident worse.

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.