Foodborne illness causes $36 billion a year in medical costs, 3,000 deaths, 128,000 hospitalizations, and 48 million foodborne illnesses every single year.

I think that robust oversight of derivatives is not overregulation. It is the right thing to do, so that we don't have the crisis that we had with Wall Street, and its hurting Main Street.

I think that we need to really have Congress take a look at this again.

the public needs to be protected from fraud, manipulation, and abusive practices related to derivatives and other products.

I believe that the budget, reflecting a 9 percent cut, $119 million, is shortsighted.

Our inability to negotiate for better pricing is a huge issue.

I think it is critically important. I think the continued underfunding of your agency has been a mistake on our part

I am interested to hear more of what you had to say about drug pricing.

I want you to be able to use the authority. Sometimes there has been reluctance to use the authorities when it comes to food safety.

You need to act on those products we now know are putting people's lives in danger.

Can you tell me how President Trump's January 23, 2017 memorandum regarding the hiring freeze would further impact the work of the Farm Credit Administration?

The Family and Medical Insurance Leave Act, H.R. 1439, sponsored by Rosa DeLauro from Connecticut, which would ensure paid family leave for all qualified workers, had 124 sponsors, not a single Member from the other party.

American women are not going to--they are going to be outraged if we are not doing something about them and about their ability to be pregnant and to bring a child to term.

We had a $66 billion increase for defense and nondefense, and we actually cut funding for chronic disease prevention at CDC by $22,000,000, or about 2 percent.

What are reasonable terms? A drug shouldn't cost $129,000 for people to get access to it.

I want to make sure that any vaccine that we deal with for Zika is going to be available and affordable for people.

Look, I realize the pharmaceutical companies invest their resources. They bring a new drug to market. They should profit from that innovation.

Eighty-six percent of annual medical costs in the U.S., 70 percent of deaths, can be attributed to chronic disease.

But what I want to know is why U.S. taxpayers are getting gouged for drugs that wouldn't exist without the significant investment of U.S. taxpayers.

I wholeheartedly agree with Leader Pelosi that Congress should stay in session until we have dealt with emergency funding for Zika.

I think it is critical for us to deal with supplemental emergency resources in order to address this issue and this problem.

50 of my colleagues and myself have sent a letter to you and to Secretary Burwell, requesting that the NIH and HHS assert March-in rights.

Not only did the State of Michigan fail to protect its people from lead poisoning, the Government created this crisis.

I am grateful for that effort. And, look, we have got more and more people retiring every day...

Unbelievable tragedy, 8,000 kids. Doctors, everyone tells us lead poisoning is irreversible, OK?