there is legislation primarily dealing with the fda. what has the u.s. the been doing on the food safety front -- what has the usda been doing on the food safety front? >> the food safety department of the department of agriculture is in slightly different regulatory place than the fda. we have the capacity to shut down processing facilities and a fairly restrictive menu of things we are responsible for -- meat, poultry and process stakes. we're focused primarily on beefing up our regulatory regimes and making sure we are focused on higher standards for e coli, salmonella, and other pathogens that we know to be causing serious food borne illnesses. we have been increasing training and inspections, we have been working to develop bbtter communication between the fda and the usda, so if there is an incident that implicates our school lunch and school breakfast programs, we can immediately notify the schools to make sure they take the necessary precautions. it has been a holistic and comprehensive effort, consistent with the food safety working group the pr

the fda says they have to recall a lot of things that are fatal. that is scary. i have things written down, but i cannot seem to remember. >> we can just address where you have brought so far. >> no, let me get rid of this. [laughter] our government is at a point where it wants to do everything for us. they cannot do everything for us. let's take a seat belt. i think seatbelts are a good idea, i think a lot is a bad job. we ought to be able to take care of ourselves. motorcycle riders are getting all banged up and they did not ve money to pay for it, so they made a lot about helmets. child seats are a good idea, but there does not need to be a lot. there is a woman they want to put in jail because of herhild died in iraq and she did not have a car seat. we kill 40,000 dogs and cats around here every year because people do not take care of them. we is to be able to immerse a leasto them and drag on them -- we used to be able to mercifully shoot them and drown them, but now you cannot do that. the government can. i have a long page. >> you know, in congress, we hav

there's a lot of close calls and that is because these people are not doing their job, the fda has aot of, they have all are free calls. that is scary. >> if you have them written, put them in the suggestion box. >> let me get one. >> ok. [laughter] >> here is one more. our government wants to do everything for us and they cannot do everything for us. let's take seat belts. i think seatbelts are good idea but all was a bad job. we need to be able to take care of ourselves. helmets on motorcycles, the motorcycle riders get banged up and then don't have money to pay for. child seats are a good idea but i do not think it should be a lot. the was a mexican couple that came here, she was holding the child in her lap, they had a wreck. the child died. they wanted to put her in jail because she did not have the kid in the car seat. that is terrible. we kill so many dogs and cats because people cannot take care of them themselves produced a mercifully drown them and shoot them but now you can do that. the government can do it. is that fair? >> one more thing. i like to see you guys, democrat

there's legislation moving in congress that deals primarily with the fda. what has u. da usda been doing? >> the fsis, the food safety department of the department of agriculture, the mission of the department of agriculture is in a slightly different regulatory place. we have the capacity to shut down processing facilities and we have a fairly restrictive menu of things that we are responsible for. meat, poultry, and processed eggs. we have been focused primarily on beefing up our regulatory regimes, making sure that we are focused on higher standards of e coali, salmonella, and other path jen that is we know to be causing serious food-borne illnesses. we've been increasing training, inspections, working to develop better communication between f.d.a. and u.s. dad so if there's an incident that they're aware of that implicates our school lunch and breakfast programs, that we're able to immediately notify the schools to make sure that they take the necessary precautions. so it's been a holes stick and comprehensive effort with the food safety group that the president ha

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because the fda does not regulate that, we continue to they pay their workforce nothing. anybody who does not work that workforce can go work the land. it is a free market utopia. there are low wages and anybody who does not like it can go work the land. it is odd that you mentioned --t the federal government's that the federal government was slow to act. what it sounds like, if i can talk it out, is that you one the federal government to use taxpayer dollars to regulate a private industry, which british petroleum is, during the fallout. that is what you're suggesting. with the exxon valdez -- i am sorry. i am thinking faster than i am speaking. there are required to pay hundreds of millions of dollars right afterwards. what they ended up paying after appeal and appeal an appeal was something like $20. so you are saying that not only should we pick up the check, but that the federal government needs to do it faster. they're causing not only economic problems, but environmental problems and food and health problems for the people in louisiana and along the coast. all let y

safe medicine which serves to echo warnings and advisories that are brought out or published by the fda. they are active in public awareness and pointing out the risk for some of the rest to buy medicines online. there are a couple -- there is like a tool to track -- a dual track. and effective strategy is to follow the money. national law enforcement authorities in the u.s. or any country to track and to find those monies and to seize those moneys. it comes back to how you can maximize disruption of the crime group, recognizing these have to be control strategies. we tend to think that we'll stop organized crime. that is an impractical philosophy. what you can do is to build the public awareness and also to ensure that the effort is to control organized crime and to maintain some semblance that we understand that if we commit these crimes, we're going to lose our profits and go to jail. i think that is an important element of the strategy. i know it is something that in terms of pursuit of money, investigations are pursued by the department of justice and by ice. i think they understan

the fda says they have to recall a lot of things that are fatal. that is scary. i have things written down, but i cannot seem to remember. >> we can just address where you have brought so far. >> no, let me get rid of this. [laughter] our government is at a point where it wants to do everything for us. they cannot do everything for us. let's take a seat belt. i think seatbelts are a good idea, i think a lot is a bad job. we ought to be able to take care of ourselves. motorcycle riders are getting all banged up and they did not have money to pay for it, so they made a lot about helmets. child seats are a good idea, but there does not need to be a lot. there is a woman they want to put in jail because of her child died in iraq and she did not have a car seat. we kill 40,000 dogs and cats around here every year because people do not take care of them. we is to be able to immerse a leash to them and drag on them -- we used to be able to mercifully shoot them and drown them, but now you cannot do that. the government can. i have a long page. >> you know, in congress,

ere's a lot of close calls and that is because these people are not doing their job, he fda has a lot of, they have all are free calls. that is scary. >> if you have em written, put them in the suggestion box. >> let me get one. >> ok. [laughter] >> here is e more. our government wants to do everything for us and they cannot do everything for us. let's take seat belts. i think seatbelts are good ea but all was a bad job. we need to be able to take care of ourselves. helmets on motorcycles, the motorcycle riders get banged up and then don't have money to pay for. child seats are a good idea but i do not think it should be a lot. the was a mexican couple that came here, she was holding the child in her lap, they had a wreck. the child died. they wanted to put her in jail because she did not have the kid in the car seat. that is terrible. we kill many dogs and cats because people cannot take care of them themselves produced a mercifully drown them and shoot them but now you can do that. the government can do it. we've been talking 14 years and nothing has happened. if you turn it over to

mms, ims, fda, on and on.s americans we are living in a country where we assume that the alphabet soup of agencies are protecting us. that when you have a situation where an attorney has to go down three floors to use the xerox machine, or a situation in the department of defense where we do not have enough people auditing the and we are losing $4 million in gas on cap cards because we were not watching how the money was being spent, we have gone to the point of being ineffective through lack of funding. which is my concern. guest: you make a lot of good points. i would prefer a federal government that focuses on doing a few things well as opposed to a lot of things inefficient or mediocre. truly, i think that we have to look at the output of government and traditionally liberals have measured our commitment to something like education or health care by how much money be put into the system and not necessarily test scores and what is coming out of the education system. wellness and well-being coming out of hea

it seems like this anti- taxpaying is -- i do not want to pay any taxes, but i do want the fda to makeod is safe, i do want the service and not service, water systems, good streets and roads -- it seems like we have done a lousy job of making sure the american people know what a good -- know what they get for their tax money. one of your guests talked about how much relief there would have been in this country if we had a single-payer health care system. the state and local governments that have to provide health care for the port -- it was eliminated in germany and france. it is not a problem in canada. there are so many things that could have been fixed. more importantly, if only our government would make sure that everybody knows at what they get for their tax money. host: thank you for call. "it will never be the same" -- that is a quote from those who lived through the exxon valdez oil spill. another headline from detroit, "a public duty and a life lived in private." wife wasan conyers' sentenced to more than three years in prison. larry from baltimore. good morning. caller: good

. >> you must be aware of earlier testimony before the subcommittee the fda does -- the faa does not regularly inspect to the same degree. am i am not aware of that testimony. >> we will get it for you. >> i appreciate that. >> with regard to the question of continued outsourcing, the question about pilots was asked. i want to follow up. our foreign pilots in the left and right seats of united airlines jets? -- are foreign pilots in the left and rights of united airlines jets? any for pilots? >> what are your plans? >> yes. >> no. >> thank you. could you describe the personal benefits the two of you would receive as a result of this merger, golden parachutes and the like. >> i know how i have made the decision already, i dunno if jeff cavs, that anything i receive will be converted into shares of the new company and deferred until such time as i eventually retire from my board seat. >> the estimated value of that? >> it depends on how successful the new company is and whether it is form. >> i would like specific information and i would not have to like to receive that from sec filing

and that is why, beyond closing off waters that have been or are likely to be exposed to oil, the fda and the national oceanic and atmospheric administration are increasing inspections of seafood processors, strengthening surveillance programs, and monitoring fish that are caught just outside of restricted areas. and we are also coordinating our efforts with the states which are implementing some former -- similar plans. the safety measures are on top of steps that we have taken to protect workers who were involved in the cleanup efforts. and part of the training you observed here today involves making sure that workers are sticking to the protocols that are put in place so that when they are out there on the waters or here on land working with potentially toxic materials, that they are taking that seriously and they are not cutting corners are safety -- on safety, because we do not want tragedy on top of tragedy that we're already seeing. officials from the occupational safety and health administration are inspecting all the staging areas like this one. they are making sure that bp i

seemed to revive and seems to have revived and in addition the treasury is purchasing sba loans by the fdais only one, only one part of the source of credit for small business and that is why i emphasize today the fed has been working very aggressively with banks to make sure that small businesses that are creditworthy are not turned away. i am sure it is not in all cases but we understand the importance of this recovery in this economy. on the deficit, again, as i mentioned to mr. ryan i think it is really a question of trajectory, a very sharp consolidation and fiscal policy this year would not be a good idea of. i think given the fragility of the recovery at this point, but maintaining a strong recovery in keeping interest rates low would be assisted by a commitment by congress to bring the deficit to a sustainable level and the debt to a relatively flat level to gdp over medium-term. >> ms. delauro. >> thank you mr. chairman. dr. bernanke, welcome and thank you. as expressed here and in other forums, the concern about the adverse effects of the growing deficit and debt in the coming ye

that is why the fda and the national oceanographers -- oceanic and atmospheric administration are increasing inspections of seafood processes, strengthening surveillance programs, and monitoring fish that are caught just outside restricted areas. we are also coordinating our efforts with the states, which are implementing similar plans. these are on top of steps we have taken to protect workers involved in the cleanup effort. part of this involves making sure workers are sticking to the protocols put in place so that when they are out there on the water or year on land working with potentially toxic materials, that they are taking that seriously and that they are not cutting corners on safety, because we do not want tragedies on top of the tragedies we have already seen. officials from occupational safety and health administration are affected areas like this one. they are making sure bp is complying to save the obligation of. if they see a problem, their work will be to resolve it as quickly as possible. we are also monitoring air and water across the gulf coast that has followed since that

and the fda and the national oceanic and atmospheric administratioo are increasing processors, strengthen surveillance programs, and monitoring fish that are caught just out of restricted areas. we're also coordinating efforts with the states that are implementing similar planss these safety measuues are on top of steps that we have taken to protect workers who are involved in the cleanup efforts. observed here today involve making suue that workers are sticking to the protocols that are put in place. when they arrive there on the working with potentially toxic materials, they have to takk that seriously and are not cutting corners on safety. we do not want tragedy on top of the tragedy we have already seen. inspectors from the health and safety and administration are they are boarding vessels off the coast to make sure that bp is complying with its safety operations. if they see a problem, they will work with bp to resolve it as quickly as possible. we are also monitoring air and water across the gulf coast. we can act swiftly should any risk arise. these health and safety measures are j