Susan Collins actually said...

"the fact of the matter is that if you like sequester the House budget cuts below sequester on discretionary nondefense spending by nearly $300 billion."

"the annual cost of caring for Alzheimer's patients is $226 billion, yet we are spending less than three tenths of 1 percent of that amount--less than $600 million a year--on research."

"with a 20 percent decline in the purchasing power of the NIH budget over the past decade, it has become increasingly challenging to create a path to move medical innovations from bench-side findings i..."

"I think Senator Tester just raised an absolutely essential issue that does deserve our attention."