Political Quotes

“we rise here today to state and restate a goal that we had set several years ago to attempt to and to succeed in doubling the funding for NIH, the National Institutes of Health, over a 5-year period. This was 3 years ago. We began that by introducing a resolution to that effect and gathering sponsorship. And lo and behold, the first 3 years have yielded the steady advance toward that doubling of funding that we so earnestly felt was necessary for the people of our country. Today, as we stand here, the Congress is poised to do the third leg of that doubling process down the road by engaging in a conference report between the House and the Senate in which the top figure, that contained in the Senate, $2.7 billion, or thereabout, would be exactly the amount required to keep us on the path towards the doubling of the funding. We anticipate that Members of the House and the Senate will eventually support that final figure that will keep us on this track. But why is this important? It is important not just for the sake of the money required to keep an enterprise moving, but the work of that enterprise will be to relieve pain, to relieve suffering, to prevent disease, to cure disease.”