Tom Harkin actually said...

"We just have to recommit ourselves to breaking this logjam of the funding for NIH."

"I say, 'Well, that is not a legitimate question to ask of basic research.'"

"I am so proud of all that we have done--all of us here--often on a bipartisan basis, to transform the National Institutes of Health into truly the jewel and the crown of biomedical research not only i..."

"When she first came to the Senate opened our eyes and got the NIH to do internal studies to show that women were not being included in clinical trials."