Bill Cassidy

But I am told that for that to occur, there is a 90 day wait--a 90 day lead in period for the FDA to accept.

If you have a dysfunctional mailroom and you have got a dysfunctional leadership and no one has actually seen each other, that it could take time for such a report to be done.

Are we actually importing from non-FDA inspected facilities in English speaking labeled countries who meet our standards intuitively?

It will not be months, it will be days. Every day you will see a new--one come on board.

There is a political article from May 9th, and I will quote it, one of the takeaways was that a food--the food division has structural and leadership problems.

I think this graph demonstrates better than the graphs in your paper the issue.

Thank you for that. You make an incredibly compelling case.

Cyber-attacks to delay care cost American lives, and that was particularly during the pandemic.

I feel like I am Vladimir Putin meeting with his generals, like on a table 60 yards long.

Cyber-attacks are never a victimless crime.

Senator Baldwin and I have a bill called the Patch Act, which requires a premarket demonstration of cybersecurity measures and post-market updates for any issue discovered.

Louisiana waived copayments for eligible families through the end of 2021.

Congress should encourage all States to cover all medically necessary mental health services, including prevention services for all Medicaid-enrolled students.

I would just add to that, from my experience working with school-based clinics, sometimes there are issues which should not be--for example, abuse by a parent, which can be discussed in the safe setting of a school-based clinic with a…

It appears that we have bipartisan agreement that hydrogen hubs are something that can point us toward a lower carbon future.

One of the benefits of the oral antivirals Paxlovid and molnupiravir is that they have much broader activity against SARS-CoV-2 and its variants.

Health systems in Louisiana have been overwhelmed by successive waves of COVID variants.

Now, obviously, the purpose of this is to come up with wise public policy.

It seems like equity would be for the coastal states to receive the same deal as the onshore states.

I would say, not to diminish your concern, but until you start looking at the impact to the federal fisc of not doing anything except pick up the pieces after the disaster, that concern rings a little hollow.

Does it seem reasonable that it could be taken into account, that maybe that you take into account that the avoided cost of damage from hurricanes would be a more fulsome, in fact, more accurate way to analyze this bill?

It creates dependency upon energy revenue for resilience.

This is good legislation that I encourage my colleagues to support.

This is not equitable, certainly not in comparison with what states get for onshore revenue.

If it is $17 billion over 10 years, that is $170 billion as opposed to investing $10 billion over 10 years in order to attempt to mitigate.