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Do you have any particular yardstick by which you judge their merits? Is it on the basis of their interest in medical research?

Well, the yardstick is that I'm interested in getting Democrats in the House and in the Senate that are liberal. I can't support all the Congressional candidates but the ones that I hear are threatened that seem to be important in key committees. For instance, Edith Green was very important in education; John Fogarty, I supported. Fogarty is very important in the medical research field and education, for that matter.

So their merits are not confined strictly to medical research.

No. In the first place, I would like to see a Democratic-dominated Congress because on the whole the Democrats have provided more legislation for domestic and national well-being than the Republicans. When there are just two people running against each other--like, for instance, McGee and a reactionary Republican--I'm very anxious for McGee to win because he has a tremendously important voice from a state with a very small population. The same with Moss; the same with Muskee. Moss of Utah was very important to get back in the Senate because he