as we move to the drug's safety bill it is reason i went right at the fda commissioner you can say hubbell level of interest to make sure they go after tainted food but with regard to drugs that is different we will not send this message to the country that's tainted food bad lettuce is awful. but we could have a different standard when it comes to bad luck with your. i am uncomfortable. of me ask some questions because i don't think i completely understand when i look at section 106, 107 we have the all in and under trees ability we have exemptions. i come from a very small town i grew up on that tippecanoe river we have to stop signs that is the size of the town i come from so i think about small, small businesses, and i worry so when we think about access to records and we say requirements with regard to restaurants are we going to include concessionaires? does anybody anticipate that? so when you go to mci every night, college football game, high school, little league? we make and year chile at our little league games. who what will be included? what about convenience stores you make t

research, enforceme nt with regard to produce progress important we have the broadest base possible to hubbell stakeholders understand and comply with the fda said public health standards. section 107 entrees ability the fresh produce industry is committed to trees ability of our products and as i presented in detail testimony on appropriations on the subcommittee earlier this year we have underway a produce trees ability initiative to provide electronic trace ability for 6 billion cases of fresh produce the movie annually within the united states a mass of an extremely expensive long-term undertaking but a commitment we have made. however we are concerned the prescriptive nature of section 107 could derail these important efforts to bring these costs efficient and cost-effective technology to bear on the challenge for graduate provisions we urge congress set a goal the mandate for future stability but not overly prescriptive requirements such as those in this bill. we believe congress to be more effective in mandating the intensive vibration of technology systems and pilot test that will feed

a strong hubbell health insurance option is consistent with the private health market. we have several insurers who operate in my home state of wisconsin that provide great health coverage to their beneficiaries. responsible insurers should have no problem competing with a public insurance option on the merits of their plan. but a strong public health insurance option will provide a powerful incentive for less responsible insurers to reevaluate their own cost sharing an benefit plans to ensure that they're an attractive option for consumers, and there's another benefit of a public health insurance option which hits particularly close to home. my hometown of jamesville, wisconsin, has one of the highest unemployment rates in the state. recently our g.m. assembly plant ceased production and other related businesses throughout the community are struggling to stay afloat. of course these challenges are shared by other communities across the state of wisconsin. madam president, a public health insurance option would be invaluable to families in jamesville and other parts of

as in the other day senator rakowski was generously hubbell on the tobacco and that alone i have said over and over again, that set up this debate in some ways because with so many people to tobacco and no one knows a better than dr. coburn as well as the position and i really thank you for that. that is a 15 year-old debate that one on and we're going to have some regulation of that industry which is a major step and prevention said thank you. >> thank you mr. chairman, thank you for your leadership on that issue and so many. and your willingness i guess to step up. i don't know how many options you had when senator kennedy calls and asks you to take over the reins. but it is appreciated it recognizing which you have in front of you the wake of this task, the responsibility i think we would all agree that in terms of the issues that are first and foremost on the minds of americans, if it is not the impact of the economy on a daily lives is health care. and how that impacts of the family budget and decisions that are made in the expectation is real and substantive that we. congress wi