Tom Harkin actually said...

"last year President Obama vowed to find, quote, "a cure for cancer in our time.""

"it seems to me that we ought to be funding NIH a lot more aggressively than we are."

"I think, has really been the great leader on this one."

"the fact that the President's budget was able to come up with a $1 billion increase for NIH is something that--we should all, sort of, credit the administration with their vision for science."