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.

We are very proud of that on this Committee, with the railroads...

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.

I am glad that the Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation.

A major railroad that leases track to a short-line railroad can require the short line only to do business with that railroad...

There is a lot of concern of some of these potential antitrust violations with pharmaceutical companies.

I just get concerned with shrinking local resources... that things are going to be shoved out.

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?

I believe it is shameful that a death like this could happen in America.

On Monday, I sent a letter to President Obama urging him to nominate a new permanent FDA Commissioner as soon as possible.

I think it is important to have clear Federal standards and guidelines that set the framework, you know, for those policies.