Sam Brownback

Thank you for your leadership on this. I know you've worked in the field, then got frustrated...

I'm frustrated, because I've been working in this space for 5 or 6 years, and I'm kind of, 'All right. Where's the product, here?'

It's just not good enough. I know we can do better than this.

It's my hope that, in the future, when the good Samaritan story is told, it's the United States that's the one that stops and helps.

It doesn't seem like we're getting there yet with rare and neglected diseases.

Less than 3 percent of the rare diseases have an FDA-approved treatment.

I think we should really look at a key issue, which is the economics of--you know, FDA and NIH can do all the work they can, but if the drug companies do not step in and deliver for us, it'll continue to be a major challenge.

The old model of a billion dollars to develop a drug doesn't work in this category.

I wonder if you've surveyed some of the countries and places you're working, and ask them for the top 10 priorities that they had.

That would be significant to some people I know--me in particular.

Further endangering civilians is unacceptable, and the international community should work to ensure that there is a clear, viable strategy for their protection.

The Lord's Resistance Army is a transnational problem. They've wreaked havoc in Southern Sudan in the past.

I am disappointed that the National Congress Party has cracked down on the media, several journalists, opposition leaders, and activists in the wake of the election.

I hope we can discuss today how we can get back on track with a viable process toward peace in Darfur.

I think this is a good motion to instruct conferees. I think it is something we ought to do. I think it is something that will be very helpful. I make this simple point to my colleagues: Under the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 100…

I would note that the amendment I called up is the one to exempt auto dealers from the consumer financial products commission created in this bill. These are auto loans already covered under the bill by whoever is doing the financing. If…

Well, if you award this to Airbus, after this step--extraordinary step of extending the time period--and it's a $35 billion contract, and it's a subsidized platform, which we all know is a subsidized platform--I think you're going to have…

If there is a subsidy, as determined by WTO, that that's considered into the base price of the bid.

I'm glad to hear that history about Minuteman. I didn't know that piece.

I think we've bent over backwards to try to get Airbus to bid on this.

Doesn't that invite other countries to do very similar actions to get our military contracts, whether it be ships or virtually anything of a military contract?

I've been frustrated about the lack of being able to consider the illegal subsidy.

I hope this is the beginning of the discussion, Mr. Chairman.

I think it drives all folks crazy.

Falcon 9 will actually launch the end of this month or early June.