Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"The Congress really should be meeting its obligation to provide those resources that are necessary for the tasks that we're all implying you should have been carrying out."

"I would suggest to you that the jurisdictional question ought to be resolved very simply and starkly. If a company manufactures drugs, you regulate them now, do you not?"

"I'm suggesting to you that the jurisdiction ought to be asserted as widely and effectively as possible and that there be no ambiguity in the law as there is now."

"Your job--and it is uniquely and always the job of the Federal Government to establish standards that protect the public health and safety where there is a national impact."