The upcoming year. Congratulations on your confirmation. We certainly want to welcome you. In your first appearance before the subcommittee and we look forward to working with you. The agency you had has authority over approximately 20 cents of every dollar spent in america. Americans expect that the food they eat and the drugs they take will be safe and effective. Fdas reach is vast. The agency has authority over more than 300,000 foreign establishments and 185,000 domestic establishments ranging from Food Processing plants to facilities that manufacture lifesaving medications. In addition to facilities themselves fda is tasked with the regulatory responsibility of individual products. In delivering these regulatory responsibilities your private sector partners expect transparency and certainty from the fda. When i speak to Small Businesses and ag producers in north dakota their overwhelming concern is overburdensome regulations coming to washington, d. C. Can stifle innovation and hi
Ago was those words a new nation, conceived in liberty, and the dedication that all men are created equal. It was those words than him or Abraham Lincoln consecrated a battlefield not far from where we sit today. The brilliance of those words were not recognized at the time. In fact, lincoln was not the featured speaker at gettysburg. It was actually edward ever, senator from massachusetts who spoke for two hours while lincoln waited until the very end to give his closing words. Today, of course, we recognize the gettysburg address as one of the greatest moments of president ial speech in history. The fact that people dont necessarily see the speech that were at the time, lincoln wasnt the featured speaker a gettysburg, points to the fact that lincolns greatness was unnecessarily recognized at the time in general. When lincoln became president , he hadnt served in Public Office for ten years. The Country Style of dress, is speaking mannerism, his self education, all of that meant that