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 ..."

"If there had been a HACCP plan in effect at this plant, how confident are you that that would have prevented this salmonella contamination?"

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

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