Tom Harkin: “I ask if the Senator from Texas would amend his statement in the Record and provide us with a table. If the Senator from…”

“I ask if the Senator from Texas would amend his statement in the Record and provide us with a table. If the Senator from Texas says we can quadruple spending for NIH, please tell us how. Please put in the Record for all to see what the Senator from Texas would like to cut in order to increase that kind of funding for NIH. If he does not, well, then the words are just words; they do not mean anything. So I challenge the Senator from Texas to back up his words with examples of where we are going to get the money to quadruple in 1 year funding for NIH. Lastly, let me just say, again for the record, there has been some talk we put the money there, but we don't know where it is going to go. We offer the amendment as chairman and ranking member of the subcommittee as cosponsors. We have the votes on his side and our side to make sure that is where the money goes, to NIH. There should be no doubt in anyone's mind that that is where this money is going to go. I thank the chairman for taking the lead on this.”