Senator Harkin and I have taken the lead, as is fairly well known, in increasing the funding for NIH from $12 billion to...
To have an allocation of less than $30 billion, candidly, is scandalous.
But not for rehabilitation.
But what we are looking for, within reason, is finding some way to quantify it.
Senator Harkin and I are going to be going to the floor and asking for an increase in the budget resolution on NIH.
We are taking up the bill to change the authority of the Attorney General to replace U.S. attorneys on an indefinite bas...
It is simply unacceptable to have a $500+ million cut in NIH funding, as proposed by the administration this year.
NIH has researched and found treatments for various strains of cancer, isn't that correct?
Well, that's why I'm asking you, Dr. Zerhouni.
Last year, we increased the budget for the subcommittee by $7 billion.
I hear a lot of people--and a lot of my friends are dying of cancer--and I know a lot of people with heart conditions.
Health is our most important capital asset. Without health, there is nothing any of us can do.
We, regrettably, cannot use Federal funding on stem cell research, except for a few lines, which were available back on ...
You have two strong allies in Senator Harkin and myself, Dr. Zerhouni, and you have the potential to have 533 more if th...
Attitudes are changed in Washington, with political pressure.
Elimination of disease, and the suffering that goes with it, ought to be our primary concern.
So, it is the NIH research which has identified a way for early screening to treat cancer at an early stage.
Dr. Zerhouni, as you have testified, the deaths due to cancer have declined in the last 2 years.
