Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I want to begin by saying I also have a great deal of respect for the distinguished minority leader. She used in her remarks and made the point that the President had asked for a number of things. Last year, the President asked for a billion dollars more for the NIH. We said: You know, we didn't think you asked for enough, so we are going to give you $2 billion. Somehow, that seems to get lost. Last year, the President sent down his request for the Centers for Disease Control. We said: You know, we don't think you are spending enough on public health, Mr. President. We are going to spend more money than you asked for. This year, when the President submitted his budget, he decided: I am going to take a billion dollars of discretionary spending away from the National Institutes of Health and spend it someplace else. We said: No, Mr. President; we think that is pretty reckless. By the way, my Democratic friends agreed with that, too. We said: We are not going to let you take a billion dollars of discretionary money away from the NIH and spend it someplace else. We are going to keep it right there. And, by the way, we are going to put more money than you asked for in this agency when the bill comes out, and we are probably going to do the same thing for the Centers for Disease Control. So, to suggest that the President hasn't gotten what he has asked for is to, frankly, misstate the facts.…”