Tom Carper actually said...

"Dr. Gilfillan, thank you so much for assuming these responsibilities for our country. The work that you are doing, the work at the Innovation Center, is just so important."

"A third area is research and development, R&D, that can be commercialized and lead to the development of products, goods, and services that we can sell all over the world."

"One of those is to try to invest a little money in workforce development, workforce skills, especially the STEM skills: science, technology, engineering, and math."

"Additionally, the U.S. bio-pharmaceutical industry has had several patents disregarded, just disregarded, due to inappropriate use of compulsory licensing and patent revocation."