I appreciate your efforts on that.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

That's why I was pushing for the small business health plans so the associations could group together.

if they're selling a product for less than what the people pay, that wouldn't be a sustainable business model.

We also need to enact several provisions that will actually lower health care costs, help employers, and allow Americans to keep the plans they want rather than being forced to buy the plan that a government bureaucrat thinks best meets…

Senator Murkowski has done a lot of work on that, and I'll let her handle those questions and any others she's interested in.

I don't think that medical loss ratio will make a big difference in Oregon.

The Congressional Research Service confirms that all new plans will be forced to have essential health benefit packages that are dictated by the Secretary.

Rather than wasting our time on another hearing that tries to shift the blame for the entirely predictable results of the new health care law, we should instead be focusing on how to address the causes of these premium increases.

More than 2 years ago, the Congressional Budget Office told us that the new health care law was going to increase premiums for individuals and families by 10 to 13 percent.

The cost of this health insurance coverage continues to rise.

It's also interesting to me that Secretary Sebelius used to be an insurance commissioner, and she didn't use her authority to change the rates.

The new health law is already driving up health insurance premiums.