"We can't ignore the business practices of the companies that have come before us today."
"That is not an answer I can provide to my constituents who struggle with this."
"If we are going to make good policy, we have to have more transparency, and it is why I am glad this Committee is working on measures to achieve that."
"Can you commit to meeting that deadline?"
"We cannot afford to have NIH's potential limited or even worse have its legs cut out from under it."
"It would mean a cut of over $10 billion in fiscal year 2024 alone for life-saving medical research at NIH."
"I was proud to author the Next Generation Researchers Act with Senator Collins to improve NIH opportunities for new and early stage researchers."
"Thank you for what you do and how you have devoted your careers."
"Fortunately, here in the Senate, Ranking Member Capito and I are focused on writing a bipartisan Labor/HHS (Health and Human Services) spending bill to move our country forward."
"What they have proposed would require deep cuts to the NIH and would lock in those cuts over the next decade."
"I just want to comment also that when we look at this oversight, we want to make sure that we don't prompt scientists to move their experiments to countries where there are less stringent requirements..."