Political Quotes

“I had the occasion yesterday to visit the University of Pennsylvania and to observe the results of scientific research, which are very heartening and which show the value of appropriations by the Congress of the United States for the National Institutes of Health. Those funds have been not only maintained but increased over the course of the past 14 years in the face of very substantial budget cuts and in the face of consistent recommendations by the administration, whether it is a Republican administration or Democratic administration, to cut that funding. Ten years ago, those appropriations were in the range of $5 billion. For fiscal year 1994, the appropriation is almost $11 billion--it is $10.9 billion. Among the very difficult decisions which we have to make, the Subcommittee on Labor, Health, and Human Services, and Education, chaired by the distinguished Senator from Iowa, Senator Harkin, where I am the ranking Republican, are those appropriations by some $6 billion last year. Yesterday, I had the opportunity to meet with Dr. James Wilson, who is a brilliant, young research physician having both an M.D. and Ph.D. He is head of the human gene therapy program at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center.”