Tom Harkin actually said...

"It's sometimes said that, while the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee defends America, this subcommittee actually defines America."

"Future attacks remain a very real threat. Yet, we are still using the same anthrax vaccine that was developed 40 years ago."

"What we can do, if we properly fund these programs, and manage them, Mr. Chairman, vice chairman, we can push the decimal point to the left, is how Senator Graham describes it."

"The fact that we were using 60-year-old technologies to make important vaccines like H1N1 was one of the reasons that Senator Graham and Talent and the commissioners gave that 'F'."