Thank you Mr. Chairman. This afternoon, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations is holding a follow-up hearing.

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For the record, I would like to make a request that the members of this committee receive a copy of that audit in April 2015 when that becomes available.

Consumers I believe deserve to know what is in their food, but it is also necessary that FDA implement regulations to ensure that the labeling of GMO products is fair and standardized and transparent.

How much of the Commission's enforcement actions do you think are seen just as the cost of doing business?

I opposed Dodd-Frank for that very reason because I didn't think we were adequately enforcing the rules and regulations we had in place at the time.

I think one of the greatest national disgraces we have in this country right now is that we have such a high number of homeless and jobless veterans.

I really appreciate your comment that we may be too focused on the past financial crisis and not enough on the future, which you identify as a crisis in market liquidity.

I certainly agree that consumers have a right to know what they are eating, and I also believe that we need to be clear and take a science-based approach when we are discussing GMOs.

This is often an emotional argument, and it is my hope that moving forward we can have it be more of a fact-based open discussion on all sides.

I am interested in exploring whether more needs to be done.

Today I rise to honor the memory of a Granite Stater who played an important role in the Civil Rights Movement: Jonathan Myrick Daniels of Keene, New Hampshire. During his studies at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge…