"Speculative funds ran up the prices of the cotton futures market at a time when there were record surpluses of cotton."
"This nomination comes at a very challenging time."
"He appreciates the role of the Congress and the workings of our political system."
"He will be a fierce enemy of fraud and manipulation."
"But it just seems to me that if you are going to close the loophole, you have got to put them all on a regulated change."
"I am nothing short of outraged at the increasing number of outbreaks of foodborne illnesses in our country."
"Surely we can do better than that."
"If there had been a HACCP plan in effect at this plant, how confident are you that that would have prevented this salmonella contamination?"
"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."