We are not going to spend any money which is not really necessary as a matter of public policy and public welfare.
What we are talking about is smallpox, anthrax, ebola virus, botulism, and others where there could be a very serious pu...
I want to hear more than whether you are impressed with them. I want to know if anybody else is doing what they are doin...
Does the executive share the sense of urgency, which the subcommittee feels on this subject?
But then with the stimulus package, the amendment, which I offered, got into the bill for $10 billion extra.
I look for a competitive bidding at the end of the rainbow, and I am going to be pushing hard to land it for Pittsburgh ...
I was in support of the Government-owned, contractor-operated.
Well, we are not going to let any time go unused.
In my first year in the Senate, the NIH budget was $3.6 billion, but when I became chairman... the NIH budget was $12 bi...
We took the lead in increasing it to $30 billion, some years as much as $3.5 billion added.
After being at those town meetings, I'd be delighted to be anywhere.
When I was elected to the Senate in 1980, the first committee I chose was Appropriations because of its power, candidly,...
Thank you for your extraordinary efforts to provide increased funding for biomedical research through the NIH.
Senator Specter, I appreciate your leadership and focus on this issue, and hope my testimony will be informative.
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I will not vote for a plan that adds to the deficit.
This health care reform act is a vehicle not for health care. This is a vehicle to take us down to a path of total socia...