NIH has researched and found treatments for various strains of cancer, isn't that correct?

It is simply unacceptable to have a $500+ million cut in NIH funding, as proposed by the administration this year.

Senator Harkin and I have taken the lead, as is fairly well known, in increasing the funding for NIH from $12 billion to almost $30 billion.

We are taking up the bill to change the authority of the Attorney General to replace U.S. attorneys on an indefinite basis, which has caused a lot of controversy.

Senator Harkin and I are going to be going to the floor and asking for an increase in the budget resolution on NIH.

But what we are looking for, within reason, is finding some way to quantify it.

I don't have any sympathy for businesses who are trying to profit from paying somebody low wages.

Illegal is illegal.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Director, I was struck by some of the information in your testimony, as well as the prepared testimony, with regard to risk-sharing.

This hearing today is one example of where the Federal Government can respond positively and constructively to the reality that families face in terms of their income instability.

the last 5 years what families have heard, working families have heard from Washington is unfortunately you are on your own.

This government has not helped them on the issue of health care.

I would suggest, and suggest respectfully, to the president that he is not the sole decider, that the decider is a shared and joint responsibility.

I would suggest and suggest respectfully to the president that he is not the sole decider, that the decider is a shared and joint responsibility.

He didn't make a mistake like this president did, and like Rick Santorum did, by failing to ask the tough questions about Iraq.

I don't believe that a shift in tactics ought to wait until after the election. There are too many casualties there.

Look, the Republican Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, he doesn't invite me or my staff into his meetings. This is absurd.

This Iraqi government's got to move forward. It can't feel it has a blank check in American lives and American tax dollars from now until the end of time.