I would think, if it was possible for the White House to provide a briefing to your executives on April 17th, that same person could be made available to this committee and be prepared to answer our questions.

I thank the gentleman for the recognition, and I am pleased to come to the floor of the House tonight to offer my congratulations to a great Texan, chancellor of Texas Tech University and former Member of Congress and former State senator…

When used as directed, 480,000 deaths a year. What is there to the science that they don't understand? It is a dangerous product.

Somebody already said it: tobacco--when used as directed, tobacco products cause 580,000 deaths every year.

The fact of the matter is, this Agency never belonged within the Food and Drug Administration in the first place.

This is the third time that we have asked Mr. Zeller to come here and testify.

We need to know how the Agency is implementing the law.

Sometimes the legislative and the administrative branches have worked together historically; Mr. Waxman, Mr. Dingell may be able to give you such a time that that happened, but this administration has not worked well with the legislative…

No one should stand down in the face of bullying, aggressive and narrow-minded tactics.

I will not sit by while patients cannot access lawfully prescribed medication.

I yield myself 2 minutes. Mr. Speaker, a very important point of what we are doing here today-- look, when the junior Senator from my State stands up back home and says that he wants to repeal every syllable of ObamaCare, I will stand on…

Your colleague always has more speakers as long as he is seated in the House. But I see no one else waiting, so we can proceed.