"On Monday, I sent a letter to President Obama urging him to nominate a new permanent FDA Commissioner as soon as possible."
"I am glad that the Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation."
"I believe it is shameful that a death like this could happen in America."
"So we have a situation where plants can have repeated salmonella outbreaks, or salmonella discoveries. They are not required to tell you."
"I admire the hard work of our Health Department, but all of this happened because of a failure, the failure of our government to prevent unsafe food from entering the food chain."
"So you have to have this shipping, which obviously creates a much more hazardous possibility, before you can even find out."
"If I found out my 13-year-old daughter, who, by the way, loves peanuts, loves peanut butter, if she was eating metal in her peanuts, I would expect the government to do something about this."
"So Georgia went, but you guys didn't really know they were going?"
"And back to the salmonella issue, how much do you think this is going on in food processing plants and in different plants across the country where salmonella is found?"
"Thank you, Senator Hatch for that."
"It is incredibly important in the health care area."
"I think it is important to have clear Federal standards and guidelines that set the framework, you know, for those policies."