Cindy Hyde-Smith

We are going to recover, there is no doubt.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I certainly appreciate the opportunity to do this, and thank you for being here.

I don't know what the definition of crisis in your mind is, and I don't know if everybody's just been told under no circumstances are you to call it a crisis, but I assure you Carla doesn't care who's Democrat or Republican in this room…

Thank you for coming to Mississippi over the weekend.

It is deeply frustrating that the subcommittee is being told--six years after a statutory deadline--that it will be another year before FDA issues a final rule on medical gases.

In making its decision to eliminate the in-person dispensing requirement, none of the studies the FDA cited, which were largely conducted by abortion activists, studied the drugs under the new no-test tele-abortion regime.

The law also requires the FDA to respond to petitions within a 180 days, but the FDA waited roughly 14 years and nearly 3 years to respond to citizens' petitions challenging FDA approval and deregulation of chemical abortion drugs.

My main concern is an ectopic pregnancy that if the baby is not positioned which is deadly, or if she's further along that she's saying that she is.

I agree with the fifth circuit's description of this deeply disturbing this of really-not-looking-at-it or the head-in-the-sand approach.

So the FDA, it's more of a legal issue of the procedure that happened than a safety issue of determining what drug is safe.

I just find it extremely concerning that under your watch the FDA allowed the dangerous life-ending, because they do kill the baby, chemical abortion drugs to be ordered by consumers through mail or purchased in retail pharmacies without…

They don't even have vehicles. You know, they have no way--no mode of transportation right now to even--to get somewhere, but we are going to recover, there is no doubt.

You know, we are in the middle of planting corn, and the equipment is just gone.

But first of all, I want to tell you how much I appreciate your staff reaching out to us over the weekend with the Mississippi tornadoes.

Thank you for being here. But first of all, I want to tell you how much I appreciate your staff reaching out to us over the weekend with the Mississippi tornadoes.

I don't know what the definition of crisis in your mind is, and I don't know if everybody's just been told under no circumstances are you to call it a crisis, but I assure you Carla doesn't care who's Democrat or Republican in this room…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

It is deeply frustrating that the subcommittee is being told--six years after a statutory deadline--that it will be another year before FDA issues a final rule on medical gases.

So the FDA, it's more of a legal issue of the procedure that happened than a safety issue of determining what drug is safe.

My main concern is an ectopic pregnancy that if the baby is not positioned which is deadly, or if she's further along that she's saying that she is.

I just find it extremely concerning that under your watch the FDA allowed the dangerous life-ending, because they do kill the baby, chemical abortion drugs to be ordered by consumers through mail or purchased in retail pharmacies without…

We are going to recover, there is no doubt. We have some great folks there.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I certainly appreciate the opportunity to do this, and thank you for being here.

I agree with the fifth circuit's description of this deeply disturbing this of really-not-looking-at-it or the head-in-the-sand approach.

I'm a firm believer in the importance of financial literacy education, have been for many, many years...