Secretary, you spent your career trying to lift up on the environmental front, scientists beating back political pressure. Does this sound like an agency that is effectively lifting up science over politics? I can tell you that all the decisions that have been made at that agency are based are made with the approvals of panels of career science. So that's just not true. So let me reclaim my time. That is categorically false because there is in fact a program called the Commissioner's National Priority Voucher Program. (02:02–02:15)
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Asserts that FDA decisions are made with the approval of panels of career scientists.
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