Marsha Blackburn

I do appreciate Mr. Pompeo and the assistance they have given us as we look at pet food labeling.

We are realizing more and more the importance of having a secure network.

As the Chairman said in his comments, this is something we have followed, will continue to follow, and do appropriate oversight with you.

We want to make certain that that is being addressed, and that the stakeholders, with all of the first responders across the country, are going to understand, participate.

We are so focused on your funding mechanism, how you moved to self-funding after that initial tranche of money is exhausted.

I think that Tim Murphy deserves a tremendous amount of credit for the work that he has put into working through this process for the past couple of years.

What we have tremendous concerns about is when you get to the point of diminishing return.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Tennessee will be postponed. Amendment Offered by Ms. Norton

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I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Tennessee will be postponed. Amendment Offered by Mr. Scott of Virginia

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What would happen if we were to say there were a zero tolerance policy for improper payments?

Who accepts the wasting of taxpayer money? You have got an issue that gets worse every year.

So you are in a bureaucratic quagmire?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Chairman Kaye, let me come to you first.

I think there is a lot of unhappiness with the American public in how you are doing your job.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I want to say thank you to our witnesses. We appreciate that you are here.

It would be a fairness issue and an efficiency issue?

So to fix it, what you are saying is provide everybody the same set of information in a transparent process where the information is easily accessible?

I do believe that it is time for us to look at some reforms, transparency, accountability.

We think it is an important part... accountability and transparency is an important part of this process.

One of the purposes is to spur innovation and to look for cures, to help individuals with disease management, and to focus on those outcomes.

We can and we must do better for these babies. Our goal is to improve the Federal Government response to this crisis.

Addiction and deaths due to overdose are just the tip of the iceberg in terms of medical consequences of this problem.

We are going to continue to look at this problem of prescription drug and heroin abuse because it has skyrocketed.