"There are a lot of issues including political issues that aren't science based."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thanks to the panelists here."
"Is EOR sequestration?"
"This is serious business and should not be so politicized that they block nominee after nominee after nominee."
"I think that this is nothing more than blatant raw politics, and I think in the 15 years that I've been here I've not seen anything as outrageous and as much of an exercise of naked political power th..."
"I think it's shameful, I think it's disgusting, I think it's despicable, I think it's outrageous."
"if you're going to do something this dramatic it ought to be done by the will of the people, by their elected representatives."
"the outcry worked with FDA. The outcry barely worked with KV."
"What is NIH's role in sort of examining these, exploring these, finding out the environmental cause, if it is that, as I presume."
"We had a mutually assured destruction approach that really has dissolved now."
"I don't think I've ever heard an agency head say, including in my time at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), that a 5 percent reduction in spending was not a cut."
"At that time I think 'weapons of mass destruction' referred to the Soviets almost exclusively in the possibility of a nuclear attack."
"people want to do their fair share, but they also want to know that when they do it, they are not going to be wasting their hard-earned dollars."
"Thank you, Madam Chair, for this hearing and for our previous one, where we had the opportunity to speak with some of your colleagues in closed session."
"We had a hearing on it a couple of weeks ago, in the Medicare and----"
"Clearly, since the Cold War our approach has had to change with regard to the issues you deal with every day."
"there needs to be an effort to reestablish trust between the American people and the Federal Government."
"There is a tremendous amount of waste in here that I am glad----"
