I'm very troubled about the cost of developing a new drug nowadays.

I would hope that you and the new team that comes in at FDA would look at this and say this is a major problem for us

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.

Another piece that I think is important that we've done in differing degrees in the past is making drug availability and new drug development for patients who are terminally ill who don't have other options.

The point I wanted to make is it is a corn-soy blend. Great. All for corn-soy. But this formulation has not been changed in 30 years.

I do hope you really get on top of that cost issue because it's going to kill people if we don't get on top of it.

We are losing a lot of population in rural areas.

USDA touches each American's life multiple times a day, food, housing programs, research and assistance.

We sure want to know what you're doing with that, when we'll see the results of that.

Senator Brownback suggested in rural development the need to integrate programs, and I think he may have a good point.

I hope you can work with us on this because I thought what Kessler did was spot on when he looked at this real crisis that was existing and we've got a cancer crisis now.

I just think we have got to somehow get our pencils sharper on the amount that we are going at the administration and transportation number.