Patty Murray

I am ready and willing to work--to continue working with you and absolutely anyone to get this right and make sure we never are in this situation again.

Parents need help. They need answers. Most importantly, they need formula now.

I am going to keep pushing to get formula on shelves and to families and babies.

What doesn't make sense, what I can't for the life of me figure out is why it took so long to investigate in the first place.

Let me be clear, the fact that we even have to have this hearing, the fact that shelves are empty, the fact that babies across the country are going hungry and parents cannot find what they need to feed their infants is a massive…

I do believe that you have a capacity, a unique capacity to be that reformer.

We should not, we cannot leave parents to fend for themselves.

I have said this before and I will say it again, the groups that families and caretakers depended on to help them in this moment, the FDA, infant formula manufacturers, all get an F in my book.

It is especially critical to me that we are treating cyber-attacks like the National Security threat we know they are.

This is a serious National Security threat and families need to know we are taking action to keep them safe from our enemies here.

We must also increase the attention given to the challenges that technology present.

Because we know our biggest global adversaries, Russia, China, North Korea, Iran have been putting resources into sharpening their cyber-attack capacity.

I fought so hard to invest in universal broadband and digital equity in our bipartisan infrastructure law.

We understand NIMH is working to eliminate disparities in youth mental health by the year 2030.

Solving this diagnosis puzzle, will really open doors for better treatments?

We have seen dramatic increases in mortality, morbidity, and healthcare costs related to mental illness.

I am really pushing for Congress to pass additional emergency COVID funding to make sure that our communities have the tests, and the treatments, and vaccines they need to keep their families safe.

Well, are there overdose prevention strategies that you and HHS (Department of Health and Human Services) hope to roll out in the coming months?

I think this is extremely important. I want to make sure we are addressing it in the correct way.

It is critical that NIH does the best possible job facilitating it.

However, Congress has really approached investing in research to treat and cure Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, with really a sense of urgency.

Thank you for that leadership. I am pleased that the world is in a better position.

We can't continue it, Madam Chair, without additional resources.

I don't like mandating things. I don't like punishing people for not doing something.

We have poured resources into this research, $17 billion since 2015 to really supercharge the discovery process with a goal of finding a treatment or cure by 2025.