[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 100 (Monday, June 13, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H5470]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
A MILLION CRISES
(Mr. ROSE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. ROSE. Madam Speaker, last week the Wall Street Journal reported
that a whistleblower employee at Abbott Nutrition filed a complaint
with the FDA in February of last year, months before the originally
reported date of October. If true, President Biden and his FDA must
answer for why they ignored these alarming claims.
Parents in middle Tennessee are struggling to find baby formula as
the out-of-stock rate has skyrocketed to 92 percent.
Ultimately, this is just another crisis that has been made much worse
by the Biden administration, about which one White House official on
the Domestic Policy Council gave the excuse that the administration's
plate was full with ``a million crises going on.''
Unfortunately, President Biden's failed far-left agenda caused the
million crises. Those many crises very well may have distracted his
administration from initially taking the baby formula shortage
seriously, as well as contributed to the administration's inexcusably
slow reaction to the crisis, allowing it to get much worse than it
should have.
We must get to the bottom of this failure and hold those accountable
responsible, but in any case, the President must do better.
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