Richard Burr

I intend to exercise my oversight authority as Ranking Member of this Committee, just as Senator Murray did as Ranking Member.

I think you are imminently qualified and I look forward to working with the Madam Chair, to expeditiously----

Oversight is an important function of Congress, and hopefully that can be done in a bipartisan way.

I expect by the end of this hearing, I will be able to support your nomination.

This Committee has a great history of bipartisanship, and I expect that will continue.

I hope that you and the White House do not pursue that.

I plan to conduct rigorous oversight, especially on the response of COVID-19.

We should all, Senators, staff, and the Administration, anticipate spending more time than we can imagine today on the response to COVID-19.

I think the fact that you seem to be afraid to answer the question, or you basically do answer the question by saying it is okay without saying it is okay, really is a statement to a real problem we have and a disconnect between what…

We need to continue to prioritize and enable and incentivizing private sector innovation.

My main priority for this Committee is healthcare.

I am not eager to see the Biden administration pursue dangerous and foolhardy proposals to simply forgive student loans.

I look forward to working with you specifically this session of Congress.

I thank my colleagues for their time tonight, and I urge all of our colleagues to prepare. This will be back up. I yield the floor ____________________

I do not think that was the best-informed statement.

No data available to support that chloroquine provides clinical benefit to the treatment or prevention of COVID-19.

There are safety liabilities associated with the drug.

The drug had been around a long time for its use in malaria, but it had not been around for a long time for its use in COVID-19 patients.

I want to add my thanks to my colleague from Arizona. I came to speak on something else, and I will say this: If there is one individual I have tried to emulate since the day I came to the U.S. Senate, it has been Jon Kyl. He represented…

Election interference from abroad represents an intolerable assault on the democratic foundation this republic was built on.

There were, quote, 'sound reasons' for judges to approve the foreign intelligence surveillance act, the FISA warrant on former Trump campaign, foreign policy advisory Carter Page.

Madam Chairman, thank you very much, and welcome.

If we allow this to happen again, if we don't do all we can in a united front to protect our democracy, then shame on all of us.

Part of it's culture. Part of it's culture within government. I don't believe there's an architecture of government today, whether it's in HHS or anywhere else, that can handle technology with the speed that it's going to come at us.

I'm grateful for the President's proposal. I'm skeptical as to whether we can accomplish all of it, because I think in part of it, it's policy, and this Committee has always tackled it.