Mary Landrieu actually said...

I do not agree with the funding level proposed by the administration for the NIH.

I have learned, as the Chair of this Committee, that there is great value and actually great strength in small businesses.

There seems to be a cutting off of that kind of opportunity, and the only way you get it is to... put your house at risk.

I am determined to find a way through this maze of all the fancy financing to figure out a way to get back to that.