"I don't agree with everything that's in it and everything that came out, but, literally, we can't afford to wait any longer to get something passed."
"On Monday, I sent a letter to President Obama urging him to nominate a new permanent FDA Commissioner as soon as possible."
"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?"
"So Georgia went, but you guys didn't really know they were going?"
"So you have to have this shipping, which obviously creates a much more hazardous possibility, before you can even find out."
"I am glad that the Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation."
"So we have a situation where plants can have repeated salmonella outbreaks, or salmonella discoveries. They are not required to tell you."
"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."
"A major railroad that leases track to a short-line railroad can require the short line only to do business with that railroad..."
"I just get concerned with shrinking local resources... that things are going to be shoved out."
"Thank you very much."