Tom Harkin: “I just hope we can sort of think outside the box, as I said earlier, of looking at this and get this money into…”

“I just hope we can sort of think outside the box, as I said earlier, of looking at this and get this money into research. We have to do it, get more money into medical research. I mean, they are starving out there. And the young people who want to go into research-- right now, less than 25 percent of the peer-reviewed grants at NIH are being funded. I always talk about medical research as sort of like you have doors that are closed. You want to look behind the closed doors. Well, if you only are looking behind one out of every four doors, the odds are four to one that you are not going to find the answer. If you look at two out of four, or three out of four, your odds are a lot better that you are going to find the answer. That is what we are attempting to do with this amendment. So, again, I hope that we can have a resolution of this and get on with getting the increased funding for NIH.”