Political Quotes

“I rise to object to the Senator from Utah's request. I understand his concern and the concern of the people in both parties, both sides of the aisle here in the Senate, to take action on this infant formula challenge that so many families are suffering through right now. The unfortunate part about this proposal is that this will put babies at risk in ways that we don't even fully understand right now. There is bipartisan concern, and the evidence for that is the action of committees--bipartisan work in several committees, including the Agriculture Committee as well as the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee--bipartisan work to meet this crisis. And the focus of that work has been to get formula on shelves as soon as possible. It is important to remember how our Nation's formula crisis began. Abbott's recall--the manufacturer--the recall and the closure came after as many as nine infants died from contaminated formula. That is how this started, contaminated formula. Now, we can and we should get to the bottom of the abject failures that led to contaminated formula hitting the shelves. I have been working on this for months--many months before this crisis came to a head--but we can't forget our top priority here when it comes to protecting infants. We have got to keep our Nation's most vulnerable, these infants, safe.…”