07/15/2013
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"Regardless of our political point of view, Democrats or Republicans, I know all members agree that NIH is one of the Federal Government's real gems."
"One of the reasons that we haven't been able to work all these problems out is that the Republicans, who run the Congress, are afraid to increase taxes even on billionaires."
"You have correctly quoted the numbers as I understand them from the CBO about what the sequesters would do to NIH, and that loss of 2,300 grants, which would come already 3 months in the fiscal year, ..."
"If there is something that I am most concerned about in terms of an event that could really disrupt and do serious damage to the progress that we now see in medical research, this is it."