Joe Lieberman

I did not come here this morning feeling--and I still do not--that we have to close the border with Mexico.

The more people who go back and forth between Mexico and here, isn't it more likely that there will be more contagion occurring?

Why not just say no, you cannot go to Mexico from the United States for some period of time, not just have a travel advisory?

I know that President Obama has requested an additional $1.5 billion to be prepared to deal with this.

There is a feeling, in response to some of the things that experts like yourself have said, that it is possible that the current outbreak will diminish as what we have come to call 'flu season' ends, but then may pick up again in a much…

That would be complete delivery of the 25 percent.

I want to urge you, as I did last time, particularly because of the problems we have talked about with the vaccine, that you really stay on top of it to make sure that we do not come to a point where there is a shortage of the IV…

Thanks very much, Senator Collins.

We are staying flexible.

This gets to the healthy aging idea again.

The students who have it should go home.

Yes. That is great. We will see, though.

Well, we learned a lot and we thank you.

There is going to be no resistance here to providing you and the other departments of our government with all the money you need to protect the American people.

Do we have the domestic capacity to produce sufficient quantities of vaccine up to the 300 million?

So now let me go to the vaccine. Am I correct that a decision has been made that if we can develop a vaccine for swine flu, we will definitely make it?

Yes, this is a classic of the very hard decisions when you are balancing factors.

I assume that if we decided to produce a vaccine because we found one that worked on swine flu, the aim here would be to produce 300 million doses so that we could at least have the capacity to administer one to every American?

If you all with your extraordinary capabilities develop a vaccine that works against swine flu, why would we not make it?

But the probability is if you get the antiviral treatment, once you have been confirmed, you are going to get better.

One suggestion that has been made to the Committee for legislation is to require in law or encourage or facilitate the creation of some certification process for the private sector.

What was the $32 million for?

In other words, to reimburse people?

This is new. In a sense, these are new organized cyber crime operations.

A public-private partnership to defend the integrity of cyberspace is now urgently essential.