Pete Domenici: “Believe it or not, I was the first Senator involved in genome. Whether people know it or not, it was not the National…”

“Believe it or not, I was the first Senator involved in genome. Whether people know it or not, it was not the National Institutes of Health that started this program. It was the Department of Energy. In fact, the National Institutes of Health did not want the program, and a very distinguished doctor left them and went to DOE. They came to me. The first bill was introduced and Senator Lawton Chiles funded it. That is the origin... I don't believe we should go from being concerned about the effects of discrimination to a 30- or 40-page bill that we--how big is it? Ten. Frankly, we need to make sure that what we are not doing is putting genome research into a vulnerable position where it is not stable and people do not know precisely what they can do on it.”