Tom Harkin actually said...

This year, fiscal year 2013, NIH funding will drop in actual dollars by $1.7 billion below last year's level, almost entirely because of seq...

Do you expect the same situation in future years of the initiative?

Since fiscal year 2003, the end of the 5-year doubling effort, NIH funding has dropped in real terms by 22 percent.

We are not going to savage other functions in education, health, labor, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and others, which are al...