Maxim should be put out of business with regard to doing business with the Federal Government.

To hell with monitoring. They've already done it.

There are people who are sitting in wheelchairs right now, looking at this right now, who feel helpless, and many of them are going to die.

Something is wrong with that picture.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

If you can pay $150 million fine, this is just a cost of business.

Your normal is not good enough.

I was horrified. And I just want to make sure, as I know you do, and part of this hearing is about this, making sure that HHS is doing its part to help these young victims address their particular needs.

I think we need to have additional hearings as our committee, and I am asking for the minority to have hearings, and we would love to have them next week.

I strongly disagree. If our goal is to analyze these grants in a responsible manner, we cannot ignore the voices of these human trafficking victims.

These victims have survived horrifying abuses that few people in this room can even imagine. These atrocities are simply despicable, almost unspeakable.

To be clear, this is not about using Federal funds for abortion. This is about providing referrals for a full range of contraception, family planning and other reproductive health services.

I would like to take a moment to remind everyone of our ultimate goal here today, to help victims of human trafficking, forced prostitution and sex slavery to escape their conditions and put their lives back together.

We must address them directly and give these victims a voice.

Why did the scores not take into account the strong preference for a full set of services and referrals?

I have worked on the question of trafficking in human beings all the way back in the Bush administration.

If our goal is to analyze these grants in a responsible manner, we cannot ignore the voices of these human trafficking victims, many of whom are very young women who have been exploited and raped by their persecutors.

I, too, want to thank you all, first of all, for your testimony.

And just in fairness to HHS, and I know that they will have an opportunity to respond, is the time up for them to submit documents?

If we had them here, we could have asked what they believe are the causes of the crisis and we could have asked their opinion about specific factors that contribute to the insufficient supply of these drugs.

I think if there is any committee that deserves to have the resources that are necessary to do its job is this committee.

Chairman Issa is absolutely right. Our--the job that we do is one of trying to bring about transparency as best we can and accountability.

My investigation has focused on determining where some of the companies obtain drugs in critically short supply and how much they mark up the drugs that they sell to hospitals and other health care facilities.

I recognize the incredible predicament that this puts our health care providers in.

I was very pleased to hear what you just said with regard to looking forward to future hearings where perhaps we could call some of those folks so we might do what you said even earlier, and that was that we would lay our political hats…