Janice Schakowsky actually said...

"This bill would require the FDA to end the non-therapeutic use of antibiotics in livestock--a practice that is contributing to increasing prevalence of antibiotic-resistant diseases."

"I think the nightmare scenario is that something that perhaps when we were young would have been a routine dose of penicillin or some other antibiotic suddenly is impotent."

"Well, on this battlefield, it seems as if we are disarming ourselves."

"Of the estimated 1.4 million people infected with salmonella each year, about one in five cases is resistant to antibiotics."