Barbara Mikulski actually said...

"Thank you for organizing today's hearing on public health, medical, and bioterrorism preparedness."

"You were the guy who broke the AIDS code."

"You broke the code and we invented--not only mapped the code, but came up with new fields called computational biology, bioinformatics."

"I must say both the chairman and the ranking member were enormously supported to minimize the disaster, but it was not a victory."