Richard Blumenthal

But the marketing is to 6- and 10- and 11-year-olds.

My time has expired on this round of questioning.

So the glorification of Cuba Libre is a message that young people should stay away from alcohol?

If tobacco companies put a cigarette in the mouth or hand of one of those children, their denials of marketing to children would be laughed out of this building.

I find the denials of marketing to children to be difficult to accept.

The Monster Army is Monster Energy's athlete development program that supports athletes ages 13 to 21.

We are pleased that the FDA is looking into the safety of caffeine, as did health authorities, for example, in Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.

The FDA also is currently investigating energy drinks.

Some of us--Senator Blumenthal, now Senator Markey, even Senator Rockefeller--we were all veterans of the tobacco wars.

Rigorous review and analysis of the literature reveal that caffeine and other stimulant substances contained in energy drinks have no place in the diet of children and adolescents.

We support recommendations by Congressman Markey and Senators Durbin and Blumenthal that energy drink manufactures immediately take steps to provide additional information and warnings on product labels.

Thank you, Senator Markey.

I began my own involvement with energy drinks that combined alcohol with their product and, when I was Attorney General, led a group of my colleagues to successfully urge the FDA to ban alcoholic energy drinks for the obvious reasons that…

Contrary to industry claims that they don't market to children, we can see they do.

This hearing is another step in the efforts that Senator Durbin, now Senator Markey, and I have led to call attention to the health risks associated with energy drinks.

Launched an investigation into the practices of fourteen commonly sold energy drink brands

We are getting the same run-around from these energy drink companies.

As I said, I commend the FBI and I thank them for this effective action and Mr. Comey for his commitment to continuing that crackdown on human trafficking. I also thank his wife and his family, his five children, for their generosity in…

What matters is that people have essential services that protect their ability to speak, to engage in economic life, and frankly to live a good life.

We could not agree more that the last-mile connection is the bottleneck for us to be able to provide competitive alternatives to customers.

I think everyone would agree except for the extreme outliers who engage in it. And I do hope that we can extend and strengthen these measures.

I would like to ask a question relating to legislation that I have joined Chairman Rockefeller and Senator Klobuchar in introducing, the Fair Telephone Billing Act of 2013.

I think your points are very well made. And in my view, they are great evidence for the need for this legislation.

I think that the draft legislation from Senator Rockefeller and Senator Thune includes language that instructs the director of NIST to--and I am quoting--include methodologies to protect individual privacy and civil liberties.

The threat has been here for well long enough to monetize and do the actuarial accounting.