Lamar Alexander actually said...

In my State of Tennessee, the largest single Federal grant at one of the State's largest medical research institutions is a Clinical and Tra...

Biomedical research is one of the engines that drive our economy.

Drastically cutting NIH, as the House budget would force us to do, would be a classic case of penny wise and pound foolish thinking.

We do not want our nuclear weapons to begin to resemble a collection of wet matches.