Have I lost confidence in Attorney General Gonzales? Absolutely, yes.

I'm not impressed by your assertion that there are thousands of facts. That's your job. That's the FBI agent's job.

It would be preferable to have the matter transcribed.

The funding for the migrant and seasonal farm workers program has been eliminated. Almost $80 million.

But not for rehabilitation.

To have an allocation of less than $30 billion, candidly, is scandalous.

The work of this subcommittee is well known, and our vigorous advocacy for NIH.

I'm looking forward to the day when either Senator Harkin or I will be chairman of appropriations. I have a preference.

Candidly, a budget resolution is only Confederate money, it doesn't really count until there is an allocation.

My view is that the funding through the NIH is insufficient.

As I think it is fairly well known, Senator Harkin and I, over the course of the past two decades, have taken the lead on increasing funding for the National Institutes of Health so that we have taken it from about $12 billion to about $29…

the allocation for autism is substantially less than the allocation for other major research activities

We have to be candid about it. The budget resolution is confederate money. Until it gets into an appropriation it doesn't count.

the funding for autism has risen, as I noted, from $27 million in 1998, to a projected budget in 2008 of $107,870,000

The administration has come forward with a cut this year, again. The proposal is to cut NIH by $327 million.

I'd like to see it get a little more attention.

Public health needs. There, and as you mentioned, the public health urgency here is obvious, to all of us.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman for convening this important hearing and thank you, Dr. Hodes, Dr. Katz, Dr. Nabel, and Dr. Rodgers for joining us this morning to explore the needs of your various Institutes and the impact of the budget cuts…