Arlen Specter: “Congress is very anxious to support you and make the most generous allocations that we can to the National Institutes of…”

The priority was to protect the family at all costs.

The reason we serve is to ensure our children and our children's children inherit the same great country that we received from those who went before us.

We are trying to make sure that we have maximum impact in the places that could use the money the most.

I cannot applaud Rutland enough, because we had a similar hearing a few years ago when Senator Arlen Specter and I were here, and that shaped a number of federal programs for the better because of what we heard from you.