Political Quotes

“Thank you, Vice Chairman Johnson, for yielding valuable time out of your very busy schedule. Madam Speaker, thank you, ma'am. The Biden administration's response to the baby formula crisis has been a joke. President Biden has tried to deflect the blame by claiming he wasn't aware of the severity of the shortage until April of 2022. To me, Madam Speaker, Mr. Chairman, this claim just shows he either has no idea about what is going on in his administration or in this country, or he is a liar, or maybe both. The FDA received a whistleblower's report, as you well know, in October of 2021 about the sanitation issues at the Abbott manufacturing plant, but they didn't do anything about it. They didn't have any intention to do anything about it. They only closed the facility in February of 2022 when two precious little babies died after drinking formula from that plant, and to me, that is criminal. Unfortunately, the Biden administration's signature move, as always, is see a problem, don't do anything, then blame others when things go wrong. I always remember the words of Harry Truman, ``The buck stops here.'' This President has repeated those, and he has yet to follow his own advice, and I believe things have certainly gone wrong. The out-of-stock rate for baby formula was recently 70 percent across our great country--70 percent. This means that parents across this Nation are going to be unable to feed their little ones.…”