WASHINGTON, DC—U.S. Representative John Rose took to the House Floor Monday to address new reports that a whistleblower from Abbott Nutrition filed a complaint with the FDA as early as February of last year. Rep. Rose also called for accountability amid the ongoing baby formula shortage.

The full speech, as prepared for delivery, is below:

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%.

Ultimately, this is just another crisis that was made much worse by the Biden Administration, about which one White House official on the Domestic Policy Council made 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 quite sluggish 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 buck stops with the president. He must do better.

You can watch the full speech here.

Original source can be found here.