I welcome and thank the witnesses and look forward to their testimony.

I'm heartened that the FDA commissioner has recognized that even just a handful of problematic recalls are too many, because lives are at stake.

Disease outbreaks from tainted food are an ongoing public health challenge.

I think it would be safe to say that a goal of FDA, through its implementation of FSMA, is to reduce the incidents of foodborne illness in the United States.

I am eager to continue working with my colleagues on the Committee, as well as Representative Speier, whose ME TOO Congress Act has offered a perfect starting point for crafting more important comprehensive reform legislation.

It's important that we shed light on the fraud and abuse in the substance use disorder treatment industry.

My hope for today's hearing is for us to learn about patient brokering and related fraud and abuse within the treatment industry.

It is a feeling I would assume that you would agree that the EPA needs to make sure that its rules don't drive up prices unnecessarily.

I hope you, Administrator Pruitt, will respect our constitutional prerogatives and will be fully responsive to our inquiries.

This is still something that just is stunning, the hurricanes we have had to deal with this season.

we want to see that significant progress so that, when we come back at the end of the year and look at the next IG report, that we have seen significant progress