I'd like to ask you when is the animal rule guidance going to be finalized as required by law?

Then I would be remiss if I didn't mention at the same time, biosimilar pathways and the fact that we have yet to have that final guidance.

I wish to pay special tribute to Tyler Stephens, a key member of my staff on the Select Committee on Intelligence. Tyler will leave us shortly to join the private sector. I am honored to have the opportunity to publicly thank Tyler and…

BARDA intentionally has a very specific and targeted medical countermeasure mission, and this is to ensure that BARDA is staying focused on bringing forward the medical countermeasures we need to protect the American people.

I have every legitimate reason to sit up here and question at what point was there one person who was moving the pieces and making the requests.

Given what we know today about the amount of contaminated waste that had to be delicately taken care of...

The American people expect us to do all that we can do to protect them from the full range of threats that we face.

I can't tell you how many times I was on the phone, saying, 'Forget about them. Bypass them.'

There was a point that the White House got to where they appointed somebody who never made a public statement, and they said, 'You're in charge.'

My only regret here is that it doesn't take EPA as long to promulgate rules and to put authorizations out as it does at FDA.

When we see the threat as seriously as we did, then we have an obligation to this country to do whatever we need to do in conjunction--and I think this is where we ended up--with the countries affected and not with some health architecture…

I'm not going to be as diplomatic as Senator Cassidy was, because I think what he was alluding to--and I'm not surprised you won't go there--was the WHO an impediment?