Sam Brownback

I would love to see us try to figure a way that you could maintain safety but also get access to people who are terminally ill.

We remain deeply concerned about the human rights situation in North Korea, including labor and political prisoner camps.

I've worked with Dick Durbin and Russ Feingold and myself on this, trying to do an initiative there to get the commodities coming out of eastern Congo to come out of licensed mines.

I just don't see any reason by what North Korea has done that we would want to use this to bribe them.

I hope you will work with General Aviation on the air traffic controller system and on NextGen, and also on the how you pay for it.

General aviation is a huge industry for the country and certainly for my State, a $150 billion industry in the United States.

I think so. It's just--it's one that we're concerned about because if it's funded inappropriately, you're going to reduce the use of general aviation in the process, or you're going to hurt safety in the process, either of which I think…

Do you indeed intend to sell Plum Island in calendar year 2010 and use the proceeds from this sale as an offsetting collection for funding the construction of NBAF in fiscal year 2011?

I think it is something that matters, has some urgency to it, needs to move forward as quickly as we can.

Isn't it now the case that it is much easier for one man's home to become another man's castle?

If you don't vaccinate for that you could have more people die of the normal flu.

What if the call is made we should do both? We should do it, because we lose what 35,000 people a year to flu?

So, you will have to make the cut point, or the call on this for H1N1 by when?

True, but you have got to make that within a timeframe that you can produce a new vaccine.

It is a tough issue because we need a lot of support and help within the agricultural industry, but it also has to be, you know safe, that is safety first.

I have had other members raise to me that we have a number of agricultural workers coming into the United States from around the world, but particularly from Latin America, and concern about the flu virus, and I presume that is something…

But you're going to have to do them back and forth. This is going to be both animal and human that the research needs to take place and you're going to have to work with CDC and other places to make sure these are, they go back and forth.

For both of you gentlemen, this is another zoonotic disease, I remember the last head of CDC telling me that 10 of the last 12 major health concerns we have had have been zoonotic, where it is animal to humans that it jumps and can go back…

I think that this is a situation where we have to hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Senator Brownback suggested, there are other issues this is tied to, or tied in with, and if so, whether or not those can be rectified as well.

While we have appropriately focused on the public health aspects of the situation we must not forget that the initial naming of this virus had erroneously caused concern that pork products pose a threat to public health.

This outbreak is a true test of our Public Health Response System. And by all accounts it is working.

I believe that the last things we want to do is raise taxes and add uncertainty to the economic and financial environments.

We are adding trillions of deficit-financed Federal government spending, which adds trillions to our Nation's debt.

Thank you Chairwoman Maloney for arranging today's hearing and thank you Chairman Bernanke for testifying today about the economic outlook.