Tom Harkin actually said...

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

"This sequester I think has a very deleterious, eroding, and corrosive effect."

"We are not going to savage other functions in education, health, labor, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and others, which are already at minimal levels."

"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 sequestration."