Arlen Specter

But what we are looking for, within reason, is finding some way to quantify it.

Well, that's why I'm asking you, Dr. Zerhouni.

Dr. Zerhouni, as you have testified, the deaths due to cancer have declined in the last 2 years.

NIH has researched and found treatments for various strains of cancer, isn't that correct?

So, it is the NIH research which has identified a way for early screening to treat cancer at an early stage.

Attitudes are changed in Washington, with political pressure.

Elimination of disease, and the suffering that goes with it, ought to be our primary concern.

You have two strong allies in Senator Harkin and myself, Dr. Zerhouni, and you have the potential to have 533 more if there's sufficient political pressure brought to bear on Washington, DC.

We, regrettably, cannot use Federal funding on stem cell research, except for a few lines, which were available back on August 9, 2001.

Health is our most important capital asset. Without health, there is nothing any of us can do.

To have an allocation of less than $30 billion, candidly, is scandalous.

It is simply unacceptable to have a $500+ million cut in NIH funding, as proposed by the administration this year.

Jim came to the Senate in 1972 when he was first detailed to the committee from the Department of Labor. He found his place quickly and began responding to what were known as ``Harleygrams''--daily instructions from Harley Dirks, who was…

I would ask the Senator from Arizona if there is anything in the legislation, 2241, statutory right of habeas corpus, which in any way suggests that it is an expansion of the right of habeas corpus to apply to aliens who were not being…

Well, Mr. President, may I redirect the line of contention that if the Supreme Court said authoritatively that aliens are covered under a habeas corpus statute, wouldn't that apply a fortiori necessarily to aliens being covered under a…

Well, if I may respond, when the Supreme Court said Congress should act, they were saying that Congress should legislate on how a military commission should be tried. But moving to your argument about the issue of constitutional right, how…

Do you think it is fair where the Department of Defense sets the rules, contrary to your assertion, that they think Federal judges can decide whether the evidence establishes the standard for an enemy combatant, do you think it is as fair…

Well, I hadn't been until a few days ago. But this is the Deputy Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz, in a memorandum dated July 7, 2004, to the Secretary of the Navy. The Senator from South Carolina made the argument that the judges were…

I have an observation to make--and perhaps it would be an admonition or a warning--that the Senate is about to become irrelevant. We have, on the other side of the Rotunda, the House of Representatives taking up the issue of Iraq, which…

Further, I support the confirmation of Judge Lawrence Joseph O'Neill to be U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of California. He, too, has an excellent academic record, with a bachelor's degree from the University of California…

But says it complimentary. I don't know. The tone of his voice was usually derisive. There was one time the Senate had two Philadelphia lawyers, Senator Hugh Scott and Senator Joe Clark, they were lawyers together. Senator Clark was…

It was. Senator Grassley corroborates that. But I have seen Senator Grassley take on the giants in the Senate. They say people in glass houses should not throw stones. Senator Grassley has thrown a lot of stones in the 26 years he has been…

It was $30 a day but no expenses. As I recollect, Senator Grassley told me it was an increase in pay from what he earned as a farmer.

I would suggest, and suggest respectfully, to the president that he is not the sole decider, that the decider is a shared and joint responsibility.

I would suggest and suggest respectfully to the president that he is not the sole decider, that the decider is a shared and joint responsibility.