11/15/2010
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"Despite the fact that children and adolescents account for one-fifth of our Nation's population, pediatric research by NIH accounts for a mere 5 to 10 percent of the total NIH budget."
"The unfortunate reality is that, whether we're talking about education or poverty or violence or health, the well-being of our Nation's children is not made a high enough priority."
"There's been a lot of partisanship in the halls of Congress recently. But, I don't expect partisanship in this room today."
"But when the overall net effect--you can talk about it is not like we are losing jobs in paper, we are losing jobs in chemicals, we are losing jobs in steel, we are losing jobs in aluminum, we are los..."