"When someone said to me we were going to do research on the glass-eyed sharpshooter, I said and what could that be research on?"
"I was alarmed to find out that only male lab rats were used in research."
"if we are serious about pipelines, and new young researchers and their success rate, and we put a very, very big emphasis on this, then we need to be serious about the kinds of allocations that this s..."
"we need to find out."
"And we have to move out of misinformation and philosophical interpretation of these efforts."
"And I know you are aware our global R&D funding forecast was published in 2011, showed a decline in U.S. research commitment relative to our GDP."
"Our share, U.S. share, of biomedical R&D expenditure declined from 52 percent to 42 percent despite what is happening in the rest of the world."
"Isn't it true that the American consumers have saved $1.5 billion in premium costs due to the Affordable Care Act?"
"I have spent my entire career fighting to ensure universal access to high-quality, affordable health care."
"We expand elder justice initiatives that protect our parents from abuse, neglect, and exploitation."
"Ultimately, we all agree that there can be no opportunity without security, and the investments we are requesting in ASPR, CDC, and NIH matter to the security of every family."