Michael Bennet

Thank you very much, both of you, for your work on all of this. And, Mr. Chairman, thank you for holding this hearing.

Actually, while we're on that topic, just out of curiosity, what do we know about drug shortages in other countries?

Are there differences in the categories of drugs that are in short supply in other places?

It's my point of view, I don't know whether you would agree, but that there are a lot of reasons why we would want to be able to track pharmaceuticals across the country, but those reasons are particularly in stark relief when you think…

The FDA has been notified about 220 drug shortages this year, and we know that the number of patients this affects is monumental.

Their urgency caused me to send a letter to FDA Commissioner Hamburg urging the FDA to take actions to address this public health crisis.

But Axel and his parents are not alone.

The legislation that I introduced with Senator Casey, The Preserving Access to Life-Saving Medications Act, would require drug manufacturers to provide early notification to the FDA whenever there is a factor that may lead to a shortage.

For some of these drugs, no substitutes are available.

I want to thank the Chairman and Ranking Member for holding this hearing. And I would like to express my deep gratitude to the people here, and those who could not be here, who have dedicated their lives to protecting children from abuse.

A requirement of your license is that you learn your responsibility to care for kids who come before you.

A judgment is a judgment, but that is not what I am trying to litigate here.

Farming is a risky business today, and it is a margin business. We have to be able to manage it.

In my State and many States, the farm country is actually leading this recovery as commodity prices have come back

This market is not a recent creation, this futures market. This has been part of American agriculture from the beginning.

As a reminder, the majority leader filed cloture on the Cordray nomination. Unless an agreement is reached, that vote will be Thursday morning. ____________________

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 6:03 p.m., adjourned until Wednesday, December 7, 2011…

I actually don't think there's a place where it's about balancing safety and innovation. Actually, we need the innovation for the sake of our patients, which is my principal concern.

We've heard a lot about this in Colorado, too.

I want to make sure that we've got an ecosystem in this country where venture capital is being invested here, and not going to Asia instead out of frustration.

I want to thank Senator Burr for his help on this, and also say how much I'm looking forward to working with the agency to try to get this done.

I think there is, both with respect to PACE and some other work that Johnny Isakson and I, Senator Isakson and I are doing in something called the SAVE Act, a huge opportunity here if we can think about how to do the financing.

There will be two rollcall votes around noon tomorrow on motions to proceed to the joint resolutions of disapproval regarding net neutrality and cross-border air pollution. There will be an additional four rollcall votes around 2:30 p.m…

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it adjourn under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 7:07 p.m., adjourned until Thursday, November 10, at 9:30 a.m.

The ugly part is we had a system where the Federal Government set the goal, and then they prescribed to the States what programs and processes we had to use to meet that goal.