James M. Talent: “Physical activity is an important component of the health and development of our future generation, and I hope you will…”

BARDA has been underfunded. It is being funded at a fraction of what it needs.

the biggest enemy I think we confront in this is inertia, and to defeat inertia, it takes tremendous leadership and perseverance.

We will never remove nuclear weapons from the category of WMD given the nature of such an attack, but may have the opportunity to do so with bio-weapons.

It just doesn't work if you have taken a subject that ought to be confined to one or two committees and you split it up among dozens and dozens of committees and subcommittees.