Richard Burr actually said...

"I think it is safe to say that countermeasures are difficult things to develop."

"But I think I can say on behalf of the Chairman, who is an appropriator, that this Committee has always said that we ought to appropriate at reauthorization levels."

"I hope it is a trend that is going to become the norm and not the exception."

"But we learned enough to know that we have no, or very little, surge capacity for an infectious disease of that magnitude."