To be able to control the domestic manufacturing, I think, is critical for obvious reasons as well as, you know, national security as well.

The FDA is responsible for 78 percent of the U.S. food supply, but the FDA is not prioritizing food safety.

We cannot fix a problem that we first do not admit exists.

It is good to invest in business, and it is good to invest in business domestically.

The FDA needs to be held accountable for its lack of transparency to the Congress and the American people, just as we are holding Abbott accountable as well.

Americans can't afford to keep relying on three manufacturers to prop up such a vital industry.

The FDA is guilty of neglecting its inspection duties. The FDA is guilty of neglecting its duty to fully understand the fragile infants formula supply chain.

Republicans and Democrats agree that Abbott is responsible for the Cronobacter outbreak at the Sturgis facility. I don't think there is any getting around it. They own it.

I don't have a money tree in my backyard that I can just go out and take money.

With all due respect, you are a very intelligent woman. You have done really good work.

I want to talk a little bit to get our arms around the statement that you talked about at the very beginning, right, and it is asking the wealthy and the corporations to begin paying their fair share.

We should be celebrating those people.

And again, this is the problem with the American people.

I agree with you with the four.

Should only the top 10 percent pay the taxes and we raise that number so only the top 10 pay the taxes?

Today's hearing has illustrated how important actually facts are over fiction, and we need to stop with the messaging and take a look at the facts.

I would agree that we are not here to talk about cuts. That is not our plan, but I first feel that we need to start talking about the causes of what got us in this situation.

So, Democrats passed the legislation they knew would likely drive the country into its worst inflationary period in 40 years?

It is a good idea to make wealthy pay their fair share, to pay off the national debt, and help cool inflation.

Shouldn't the Biden administration be forcing more help on Americans in need by actually addressing the inflationary crisis rather than minimizing the real pain inflation caused by their reckless actions?

I am just looking at the facts. So, if I understand the facts correctly, and please correct me if I am wrong, when the President took office in January 2021, inflation was at 1.4 percent.

I agree. Dr. Holtz, the Biden administration continues to claim that 70 percent of the increased inflation was due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Is that true?

Inflation is a broad-based increase in the price level so that the dollar price of goods and services broadly in the economy rising.

Did the American Rescue Plan increase inflation?

It would be nice if we did.