Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"The amount of funding it's proposed, $2.5 billion, is tremendously inadequate."

"It is a homeland security issue, and it requires a whole of government all-hands-on-deck approach, just as President Obama did with Ebola."

"If you were to pick someone in the United States government right now to perform that role, the last person or one of the last would be secretary -- the vice president."

"What we need is not happy talk, but action and the kind of resource -- swift, strategic, smart responses and preparedness that depends on science."