Richard Shelby actually said...

"Well, I appreciate this. I know you have to start in the lab, but then you've got to move from the lab to the clinics to prove what's going on. So we have to have both, do we not?"

"I support additional funding for NIH research, but in particular, I would like to emphasize today the importance of accelerating research in the area of Cystic Fibrosis (CF)."

"I understand that, but the Congress makes mistakes."

"As Senator Dodd indicated, I think we will be spending a lot of time together in the next year or so."