Tom Harkin

My thought is to eat maybe one a year, or something like that, just cutting down on how much you eat of that stuff.

I mean, look, I like a Big Mac as much as anyone else, but I don't eat five of them a week.

So we have to have better information on moderation in eating those kinds of foods, and make sure that these are not the kind of things that you consume all the time.

We need to provide more fruits--fresh fruits, fruit drinks, healthy kinds of foods at places like that to send the proper example to our kids.

Senator Harkin, you've helped us with that in the past, and greatly expanded our teen programming at 21 cities across the State.

I feel better about it now. Thank you.

But you're the experts in this, and your Department is, and I hope there is a close collaboration between Agriculture and you on the food pyramid.

Because it is my opinion, having been, you know, in Agriculture--I've been chairman and ranking member of that committee--and also here, that your Department needs to have the majority of input into designing that food pyramid.

Thank you for what you're doing in Medicare.

We need to move in that direction.

Man, the elderly can prevent a lot of illnesses and stuff.

You've been a great leader.

I think the more that we can really get the information out there to children, that's the future.

We've got to get more physical education back into schools.

I hope you will take a look at that and think about it, and perhaps think about talking about, at least, having some regulations on how we advertise junk food to kids.

I have introduced a bill called Healthier Lifestyles and Prevention bill to provide incentives to schools, employers, communities.

We need to make a new approach, a comprehensive approach towards wellness.

I've often said we don't have a healthcare system in our country, we have a sick-care system.

I just want to thank my chairman and my friend, Senator Specter, for calling this important hearing today.

I can publicly say that this is, I believe, the first Secretary that has really focused on changing this paradigm.

We agree on so many issues that cut across party lines, when it comes to medical research.

Ms. Plame had a number of assets and contacts, people in other parts of the world who were giving her information valuable to our national security. These people have been put at risk.

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