"We do need transparency so that the States understand the process, how to get things approved."
"So, you know, that story kind of just supports our concern and the reason why we dropped the bill."
"CMS is standing in the way of a lot of State innovation by not approving commonsense waivers, and taking long, long periods of time to improve--to approve the ones they do."
"Biotechnology is the best solution for those problems I just talked about by far."
"Without it and the population growth and the climate changes, we could be in a disastrous position."
"The country feeds the world. United States, we feed the world."
"As far as I am concerned, they don't exist, and I don't think any of the dollars that are being provided should go to anything like that."
"I just would encourage my colleagues that if we want to have an opportunity to really move a bill, we are going to have to come together and be positive and just tweak the language and work this throu..."
"We are changing the rules on the fly, and the people who are creating jobs in this country cannot manage it."
"So they should move. Is that the answer? Get out of that 70-parts-per-billion area because it is not healthy."
"I mean, you just can't weigh in. You are not making those cost-benefit analyses."