Arlen Specter actually said...

We took the lead in increasing it to $30 billion, some years as much as $3.5 billion added.

But then with the stimulus package, the amendment, which I offered, got into the bill for $10 billion extra.

Thank you for your extraordinary efforts to provide increased funding for biomedical research through the NIH.

When I was elected to the Senate in 1980, the first committee I chose was Appropriations because of its power, candidly, in bringing money b...