Bob Bennett

the FDA earlier this year issued a report on the issue of counterfeit drugs, the efforts of a counterfeit task force.

I would like to find a way to get that into discretionary funds. I am not sure we can.

Without this increase in funding, many problems facing Americans will go unsolved.

I noted that the FDA recently launched a web site to allow both consumers and the medical community to find comprehensive information about FDA-approved drugs quickly and easily.

Well, does that mean we no longer need to provide funding for diet, nutrition and obesity research at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center or Pierce's Disease research in California or Sudden Oak Disease research in Maryland?

I will be a bulldog on it this year.

it seems unusual to me that FDA is developing scientific guidance on how to do something when there is no legal structure by which to do it.

I would just hope, and it does not appear, that the controlling factor as to which projects get terminated and which ones do not is which ones came from the Congress and which ones did not.

I raised that a year ago, why we have to keep on top of it.

this is not a CIO problem; this is a CEO problem.

Well, we will look at this closely. I note that the budget requests termination of the diet research and obesity research program at Pennington Biomedical Research Center at ARS headquarters and then requests funding for an Administration…

Trade is good--let us remember that.

The unemployment rate declined to 6 percent.

Not to inject partisanship into this, but you understand how the two surveys get used in political oratory...

The household survey reported that employment increased by an astounding 441,000 in September.

Like virtually every other economic statistic reported in the past month, the employment numbers released today are definitely good news for the American worker.

Like virtually every other economic statistic reported in the past month, the employment numbers released today are definitely good news for the American worker.

I agree with the witness, Iraq will be very expensive, Iraq will be very difficult, Iraq will take a very long time, but, in the long run, Iraq will be worth it.

But we are not trying to do anything in Iraq other than provide simply the absolute baseline, plain-vanilla kinds of security and services that are necessary, and then we----

I applaud the four statements that you are--or the four areas that you are concentrating on, and I agree with the priority--security first and then essential services, working to get the economy under control, and then ultimately the…

I'm concerned that a single-product economy is a shaky economy.

We lost the war on the Cable News Network (CNN), but fortunately we won it on FOX.

I think, by historic standards, you are proceeding at breathtaking speed.

Economically, we have been paid 1,000 times over for the money and effort that we put into creating those economies on a stable basis.

I think it would be a mistake to separate parts of these out. This is extremely urgent.