Patty Murray actually said...

"I really worry that cutting funding for treatment and recovery... would make it very hard for addicts to get the help they need."

"A yearlong CR, unless an anomaly were possible for NIH, would be simply devastating."

"All of us here today agree there is a lot more we need to do to keep our families and our communities healthy, and continue investing in priorities that strengthen our economy from the middle out."

"The work of the National Institutes of Health is vitally important to that effort."