03/05/2019
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"I have to tell you, I have heard a lot of stuff not on this committee and certainly it isn't--but particularly in the other body that I have got to tell you is just transparently political claptrap."
"So when I hear you criticized by people that in many cases didn't vote for the bills that gave you the tools then I regard that as political as opposed to substantive."
"This committee's commitment to NIH will remain as strong as ever."
"To propose investing $2,000,000,000 for the wall and cutting $3,300,000,000 from the National Institutes of Health really does expose the Trump Administration priorities for what they are: political r..."