The FDA, the agency responsible for protecting the public health and safety, did not act properly.

Job one for the FDA is making sure the medicines we take are safe, but this mission seemed to be lost.

The company involved acted negligently and didn't follow proper sterilization and sanitation practices.

It is our job at this committee to also take a hard look at the agency under our jurisdiction, the FDA, and ask: did its processes work?

I was puzzled as I listened to you evade the answer to the chairman's questions about when you learned.

I would like to thank my friend Ed Whitfield and his subcommittee's tireless efforts to break the administration's four-year long impasse and approve Keystone XL.

I don't think it is a secret that I am a proponent and supporter of the Keystone pipeline, so it is somewhat redundant for me to ask too many questions.

Even the Obama administration's State Department concluded in its Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that the project poses minimal environmental risks.

It boggles most people's minds when they look at this from a commonsense perspective and say why does the President continue to say no to Keystone?

The Keystone pipeline should have been approved years ago.

I would hope that we would schedule a vote and bring it to the floor and let's get it out of committee and get to the floor and have a vote and send it to the Senate.