Tom Harkin actually said...

"And congratulations, again, on taking over the reins, and we're looking forward to working with you on this terrible budget crunch that we have."

"I hope you'll look at involving them in this process."

"Here's the whole issue of how NIH decides how much to spend on individual diseases."

"I agree that this is something that really needs to be done, and we've talked about it personally many times in the past."