Susan Collins actually said...

"It seems to me that when you went to the CDC a year ago and showed such glaring deficiencies in just basic security measures, that the agency should have acted immediately."

"I just again want to thank our witnesses for all of their work--they have all been working on it for quite some time--and to assure you of our determination to get the kinds of reforms that we all bel..."

"It is startling to me that you could present the regulator with the report showing such serious problems and no action was taken, but that is what happened."

"Just following up on that point, we have done a lot of work with State and local governments, and with our private sector partners to improve the response because obviously if you are a terrorist and ..."