"let me just associate myself with the President's remarks yesterday that he would not hesitate to enforce commonsense safeguards to protect the American people."
"I do want to tell you that on December 10th, 2010, Representative Pressley and I sent a letter to the CEO at Johnson & Johnson, Alex Gorsky, about the targeted marketing and sale of your talc-based ba..."
"some vulnerabilities are thrust upon us as a Nation, and others, like the one we are discussing, are really self-imposed."
"Well, on this battlefield, it seems as if we are disarming ourselves."
"we are doing it in order to grow animals faster or, you know, to promote growth and not to promote health."
"Of the estimated 1.4 million people infected with salmonella each year, about one in five cases is resistant to antibiotics."
"I am pleased to offer my testimony today in support of your bill, the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2009."
"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."
"The use of these antibiotics in farm animals do, I think, endanger our health, and there is evidence to say that."
"In my home State in California, we have been buffeted in recent years by outbreaks of salmonella and E. coli."
"I feel like all of the testimony that we have heard has reinforced this idea that this is something that we can change, that we are bringing this on ourselves, that our industry will survive, that wit..."