Tom Harkin actually said...

"I don't know how that happened. I opened up the newspaper this morning and there's a picture of pigs and hogs, as though all of them are affected with this."

"So why did this happen? Why did this happen? Why wouldn't they have gone--I mean, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the gold standard in the world."

"It costs us a lot of money every year. A lot of people die of influenza every year."

"I remain deeply concerned about their ability to rapidly answer a growing pandemic in some areas of some States."