03/24/2009
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"But I think I can say on behalf of the Chairman, who is an appropriator, that this Committee has always said that we ought to appropriate at reauthorization levels."
"I hope it is a trend that is going to become the norm and not the exception."
"But we learned enough to know that we have no, or very little, surge capacity for an infectious disease of that magnitude."
"You probably hit on the key thing that was, I think, the toughest thing to recognize, and that is: where is the Federal Government's responsibility at creating the incentive for people to create somet..."