I can promise you, if sequestration stays in effect next year, there's no chance that we will get close to the President...
I'm not going to turn this into politics. We want to be above politics. But we're going to have to deal with politics.
This is a perilous moment for NIH and, indeed, for the future of biomedical research in this country.
It would be huge.
This sequester I think has a very deleterious, eroding, and corrosive effect.
I'm concerned that when money gets that tight, there's a tendency to shy away from awarding ideas that are thinking outs...
Since fiscal year 2003, the end of the 5-year doubling effort, NIH funding has dropped in real terms by 22 percent.
Do you expect the same situation in future years of the initiative?
This sort of balanced approach is the only way NIH will have the resources it needs to realize the enormous scientific o...
This year, fiscal year 2013, NIH funding will drop in actual dollars by $1.7 billion below last year's level, almost ent...
We are not going to savage other functions in education, health, labor, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and ...
But does that absolve the perpetrators of $4.4 or more billion worth of discrimination? Are they not still out there?
television was a pervasive means of sharing information in our society, and therefore a vital link to our world.
Well, we have made significant progress since ADA and access to entertainment technologies. But again, we need to go fur...
No longer accept limits on what they can achieve.
I introduced two bills to address egregious gaps that I have personally noticed as a movie lover and as an air traveler.
Passing the CINEMA Act and the Air Carrier Access Amendments Act would be two concrete steps in that direction.
The only way we're going to do that is by embracing science and investing in science.
