Mike Enzi

I was very impressed with your information about what's happened since October 31, when the President did his Executive order.

I love your enthusiasm and your answers, and I know that at some point, someone had high expectations for you, which translated into high expectations for yourself.

Clearly, deafness is a barrier that can be overcome by education.

We will continue to ensure that the chance to live the American dream is an avenue of opportunity that is available to everyone without exception.

Why shouldn't more people with deafness testify, as well as people with other kinds of disabilities that we have all over our society?

The significance of a college education for everyone has never been more obvious.

I have got to say all of this has been very eye-opening. Sometimes we live in a little bit different world.

Thank you for the opportunity to testify in front of you today.

I think just requiring that transparency and disclosure will get to where you want to go much faster.

I think there are some things which you may be able to do immediately through legislation, which would change the paradigm.

My concern is FDA over-regulating, not under-regulating.

Today's hearing will examine our increasingly global supply chain and assess how effective agencies like the FDA have been in protecting American consumers.

In 2007 and 2008, dozens of patients died after receiving Heparin, a widely-used blood thinner that had been contaminated during manufacture in China.

Any legislation that we do, I think we have to give the secretary some latitude to prevent those suppliers from exiting the market.

I appreciate your efforts on that.

Deputy Commissioner, you deserve credit for taking on a tough job.

The number of drug products made outside of the United States doubled from 2001 to 2008.

Since we should be working on that quickly, I hope you would get the specific things to us so that we can do that and perhaps avoid the regulation route.

Given the risks of globalization, why hasn't the FDA updated its know-your-suppliers GMPs?

I have been a strong supporter of giving FDA the tools it needs.

Ted Kennedy and I agree on 80 percent of the stuff. Maybe 20 percent we do not agree on. And what we focus on is the 80 percent on which we agree.

Therefore, we urge you and others in the Administration to immediately consult with the appropriate senior Chinese government officials in an effort to achieve the elimination of the April 1 9% VAT rebate on soda ash.

Actually, everyone has to pay for all of those for free, and they are mandated benefits.

If we had approved a 22.1 percent increase, that would result in further enrollment losses.

I think we're still short about five rules yet on the exchanges for the States to even begin working on it.