FDA Crisis Confab?

Where's the Food and Drug Administration's top managers? With the House Energy and Commerce Committee on the eve of marking up FDA reform legislation, all the top officials at the agency -- including Andrew von Eschenbach, Janet Woodcock and Randall Lutter -- didn't show up for work yesterday. The rumor that swept through headquarters was that they'd been summoned to a "crisis management" meeting by Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt.