Tom Harkin actually said...

"Well, why not just--since the food component at FDA, and I will ask Dr. Sundlof, maybe he doesn't know, it is a smaller part of FDA than the whole drug regime is--why don't you just move that over to ..."

"we have for far too long ignored our public health sector in this country."

"Right there, now they did not have to report to the FDA the findings of salmonella."

"we haven't changed and updated our public health system to cope with this new distribution system."