"I want to thank you, Chairman Kingston and Ranking Member, for this very important hearing today."
"I guess I wanted to ask a few questions first with regard to partnerships with research universities as it relates to research on infectious diseases and treatments."
"last August, I along with 80 of my colleagues in the U.S. House of Representatives sent you a letter expressing our support for NIH funding of social, behavioral, and economic research"
"So that is one of the missions of the Institute, yet the funding does not seem to follow the huge job that we have asked you to do."
"Thank you very much. Dr. Collins, let me ask you a couple of things about sickle cell research."
"we will be getting a letter, yes. And again, it should have come much sooner than this."
"Thank you. And still no cure."
"The cessation of smoking, of course, is the number one preventive behavior change."
"the fact that minority health disparities continue to be a big issue, you know, to me warrants a larger increase in its budget."
"And to our ranking member Mr. Engel, thank you so much for your continued leadership as it relates to the Caribbean region."
"I would like not only repeat it, we need to enhance this and make it a priority."