Roy Blunt

People with substantial borrowing power should not make up such a substantial portion of the FHA loan portfolio.

Every one of those reports, I am sure, creates questions in the minds of families who now wonder how accurate the information is on the graves of those they care about.

I believe that only about 25 percent of the people that visit the facility go multiple times.

I think I am out of time, though I did want to ask just briefly your sense of the merits of the 2-year budgeting appropriation cycle that you are in.

I'm proud to represent the soldiers and airmen who serve at these facilities.

Are they all under the direct control of the service branches?

And I think one of them may involve Jefferson Barracks and the facility there.

Can you please provide an accounting of the actions being taken by the Army to expeditiously repair and replace housing and training facilities damaged or destroyed by the tornadoes that affected Fort Leonard Wood in February?

I wish to talk a little bit about the McConnell amendment that I think we will vote on on the floor of the Senate this week. This is the amendment that really clarifies whether Congress ever intended to give the Environmental Protection…

This is an important part of our economy in many ways.

I applaud, Chairman, your efforts and those of the Ranking Member and Senator Brown and Senator Hutchison.

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Casey). Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Missouri is recognized.

I rise to speak on an issue I feel I have spent a lot of time talking about in recent years but without much effect on either of the last two administrations. This is the issue of the Iran Sanctions Act. Congress has worked in a bipartisan…

And particularly catfish.

If you have any studies on what impact that has on the prices of these drugs, and maybe it is over such a large number of drugs it is varied, but I would like to see that if you have that information.

I know you have been a knowledgeable advocate for this work and look forward to your leadership on it.

And do you have new responsibilities for food traceability in this law?

Would that be across the board? This is a question I do not know the answer to.

But you will have new traceability requirements or obligations on the things you do regulate on the farm.

The administration's request for FDA is an increase of 16 percent more than the current funding level.

I would also be pleased to see the numbers for fiscal year 2010, if they are available now.

If you had them, what are we talking about here?

I would think that would be something we would want to know as part of the whole evaluation of what impact this has on the generic marketplace.

Let me ask just a couple of quick questions on review processes, particularly since you mentioned you might have some other ways to try to get these products that Chairman Kohl was talking about to the market quicker.

It is important we look for ways to do what we can about duplication where it occurs.