Thank you for your willingness to do this, and I'd like to invite you to Denver, to the Denver Public Schools, if you'd be willing to come, to see what we're working on there.

I think it is critical for the HELP Committee to explore current practices in the personal care and cosmetics industry, including safety concerns and regulatory oversight.

Thank you and the Ranking Member, Patty Murray, for holding this hearing today.

You do not have a Forest Service; you have a fire department.

It is terribly irresponsible not to spend money on the front end.

First, let me thank you and Senator Hatch and Senator Burr and the committee for really jump-starting the Breakthrough Therapy Designation and getting it passed into law.

Any test that is used to guide medical decisionmaking should be held to the same standards, no matter where it's developed.

Just for the benefit of the committee, I'd love to go down the line here and ask you what the one or two things are that you would like us to keep in the forefront of our minds as we think about and as we consider legislating in the area…

I think there's not really any other reason for the Federal Government to be involved in education other than that at the K-12 level.

One of the things that is certainly true of the change in the law is that we have devolved the responsibility for implementation back to the States in a fairly significant way.

Time is not on our side.