Political Quotes

“I likewise rise in opposition to this amendment and echo the sentiments expressed by a number of speakers. This simply is not the appropriate bill. This is not the appropriate forum to decide this issue. In response to the last speaker, whether it is a simple issue or a complex issue, I do not know whether that is really the point. The fact is, it is a very controversial issue and should best be decided by the authorizing committee. I am advised--and again because this is an appropriations committee, not an authorizing committee and we do not get into these things in substance like this-- that there are very serious concerns raised by representatives of the biotech industry and other areas in industry about the effect that this amendment could have on the incentives which our system now has for innovative new research procedures. In any event, all of those issues are for consideration by an authorizing committee, and because controversy does surround it, I think that is the better forum.”