"Let me ask Mr. Sacks and Ms. Weiner, would you be willing to make the same commitments that Red Bull has made, most especially the commitment not to encourage or condone excessive or rapid consumption of energy drinks?"
"My time has expired on this round of questioning."
"Energy drink products should not promote energy drinks for mixing with alcohol, nor should they market energy drinks to counter the effects of alcohol consumption."
"Thank you, Senator."
"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 ener..."
"Thank you, Senator Markey."
"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 labe..."
"Some of us--Senator Blumenthal, now Senator Markey, even Senator Rockefeller--we were all veterans of the tobacco wars."
"We are getting the same run-around from these energy drink companies."
"launched an investigation into the practices of fourteen commonly sold energy drink brands"
"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."