Political Quotes

“I rise today to introduce a new bill, the Accelerating Cures Act of 2008, to enhance public and private research efforts to develop new tools and therapies that prevent, detect, and cure diseases more quickly from bench to bedside. I introduced an earlier version of this legislation in December 2005, the American Center for Cures Act of 2005, S. 2104. Fundamentally, the Accelerating Cures Act of 2008 has the same intent to promote clinical and translational research within the National Institutes of Health while incorporating many of the recommendations made from the 2003 National Academy of Sciences Report, ``Enhancing the Vitality of the National Institutes of Health: Organizational Change to Meet New Challenges.'' The NIH is a successful, worldwide leader in biomedical research whose mission is to support ``science in pursuit of fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to extend healthy life and reduce the burdens of illness and disability.''”