Tom Harkin actually said...

"It would be huge."

"I'm concerned that when money gets that tight, there's a tendency to shy away from awarding ideas that are thinking outside the box."

"This is a perilous moment for NIH and, indeed, for the future of biomedical research in this country."

"I just wonder if it's not time. I ask my friends here to revisit this and to think about some new source of funding like that."