Richard Shelby actually said...

"I believe that the top investment we can make in America to save lives, to improve lives, for the American people is to invest in the NIH."

"I'd like to see us double NIH's funding. I know that's hard to do, but to at least get on the upward funding trend, not the downward trend, of biomedical research in this country is a critical first s..."

"I'm committed to working with Senator Mikulski to see if we can plus-up NIH, though."

"We need to figure out how to prevent it, don't we?"