Richard Burr: “I want to thank you and Senator Mikulski for chairing this hearing this morning.”

The faster, more predictable, and more accountable the programs are, the more patients stand to benefit from lifesaving, innovative drugs and devices.

By statute, you are supposed to lead a pandemic. I am going to turn to you. Tell me what the plan is.

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.

Are you beginning to see the pattern as to why a plan is important? This has been a well-orchestrated event up to this point.