Richard Durbin actually said...

We want to invest in the fiscal year 2012 budget in what we are calling the First in the World Competition.

we're creating terrible deficits in young scientists and terrible deficits in the public body of knowledge.

It was the public outcry, your outcry, Representative DeLauro, the professional societies that I think actually turned the tide.

Drastically cutting NIH, as the House budget would force us to do, would be a classic case of penny wise and pound foolish thinking.