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.
Mr. Chairman, we have, on the floor at the moment, the legislation involving the U.S. attorneys who have been asked to r...
Health is our principal capital asset and the work which has been done by NIH has been truly spectacular.
Speaking of OSHA, why is the administration proposing to eliminate the $10 million OSHA program for worker training and ...
Senator Harkin and I, and this committee--and I think, really, the whole Congress--are determined to increase funding so...
How are the allocations made, to have the $107 million, roughly, which is a very, very small part of the NIH budget?
These cuts will be very, very difficult to sustain, given the issues which that funding addresses.
