Political Quotes

“this special order is centered around our effort to double the appropriations, to double the funding, as it were, of the National Institutes of Health over the next 5 years. I have for a long time appreciated the special efforts made by our scientists, researchers across the country, as have all Members of Congress as we see new, spectacular advances made in research and development of technologies, new ways to cure age-old diseases, those that have scourged the earth for all these years, and new ways of treating people who have reached older age, how to treat infant deaths and the scourge of handicaps that are across the land. All these research methods and scientific methodologies have blossomed over the last several years to such an extent that we feel confident that to redouble, using those words advisedly, the effort on the part of our entire society will benefit that society in a million different ways. Pursuant to that, back in November of last year I introduced H.R. 2889. Now this bill would have created and still is extent and could create, if passed, a national commission for the new national goal, that goal being the advancement of global health.”