I note that it is in the budget for $219 million.

this year's funding is also disgraceful, in my opinion, at $1 billion.

We could do more than that. That was the appropriation for fiscal year 2010.

The successes have been monumental in what you have done for prolonging and saving lives.

It is precisely the kind of divisive and unnecessarily sweeping decision that Chief Justice Roberts pledged to avoid.

I would like you to go back to your office and review what could be accomplished with the $500 million, in as specific terms as you could.

Many programs fail and many programs succeed.

What is your professional judgment as to the kind of priority attention that the CAN ought to receive?

a lot of money to be saved by research; tremendous amounts of money to be raised by research.

Perhaps this is something where there could be some assistance from the Veterans Administration.

the scientific is going to have to become a lot more politically active blowing your horn.

last year's funding was disgraceful, at $772 million.

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