Richard Burr: “I created BARDA, wrote the legislation, and it was enacted in 2006 so that we would be ahead of this.”

When is somebody going to share with the American people the destination we are trying to get to and how we are going to get to that destination?

Nobody has worked harder on this issue, I think, on the Hill than I have.

I will continue to ask you for a plan until we get one, and I will continue to be a roadblock for those who believe that we can blindly just appropriate emergency money.

I will write the Secretary and ask him what the criteria is to end the state of emergency.