If confirmed, I will ensure FDA remains engaged on this important public health issue.

Senators Grassley, Isakson, Hassan, and I recently introduced bipartisan legislation that would make certain types of hearing aids available over the counter.

I think it raises the very real question of whether someone who seems to oppose the FDA's basic safety mission should be running the agency.

President Trump seems to think that user fees are a substitute for Congress doing its job. He's wrong on this.

In addition to the hiring freeze, President Trump's budget blueprint calls for cutting congressional support by as much as a billion dollars for the FDA next year.

Does it worry you that at the same time that we're trying to boost the number of staff implementing the FDA's mission that the President is trying to cut the number of FDA staff by preventing the agency from filling vacant positions and by…

The result will be a crippled agency, a cop that is severely underfunded and whose ability to enforce the law will be at the mercy of whatever the regulated companies do or don't want to see enforced.

I don't understand why one of the first things that President Trump did when he took office was to start cutting the number of people at the FDA.

since coming to Washington, I have observed something interesting about Republican politicians. Republicans talk a big game about respecting women, but when it comes time to vote on laws to help real, live, American women, a lot of…

Republicans are in charge of the Senate, and so far they haven't put up for a vote in this Congress a single piece of original legislation to help working families--not one. They haven't fixed a single piece of our crumbling…

This disease is also wildly expensive. I know that the Chair talked about this. The United States spends $259 billion a year on health care related to Alzheimer's disease, including $175 billion for Medicare and Medicaid.

We need more money for NIH, not less.

Breakthroughs will not happen if we are not funding our scientists and keeping in the fight as they push every day to make progress.

We will lose our researchers if we do not fund them.

After a certain point, financial sector growth sucks money away from the real economy.

Our job here on this Committee is to advance policies to make the economy grow, not policies just to make big banks even bigger.

To me, that means one of the best things we can do to promote economic growth in this country is to make every effort to provide basic banking services to the 40 million unbanked households in this country.

last week Republicans in Congress came within an inch of ripping health insurance away from 24 million people in order to give tax breaks to rich people. That collapsed, and it collapsed because the American people stood up and said no--no…

It is clear that a robust, well-functioning financial sector can help grow the economy.

A growing financial sector does not necessarily mean a growing economy.

A lot of Americans have known for a long time that the financial sector has gotten too big, too complex, and too powerful.

There is no tradeoff here between regulation and growth. They work hand in hand if done right.

More potential cases with a deadlock and no enforcement, and that is a problem.

You intend to enforce the law strictly, and I very much agree with that goal.

I think we have a New York Times analysis showing in the 48 cases where Mary Jo White recused herself that the Republicans wanted less enforcement.