Why the repeated effort to eliminate that program when every time you do, both the House and Senate come back and insist on it?

I would emphasize that the increase in crime across the country, and especially juvenile crime, really underscores the need for those programs.

These cuts will be very, very difficult to sustain, given the issues which that funding addresses.

How are the allocations made, to have the $107 million, roughly, which is a very, very small part of the NIH budget?

Senator Harkin and I, and this committee--and I think, really, the whole Congress--are determined to increase funding so we can find an answer to autism.

Speaking of OSHA, why is the administration proposing to eliminate the $10 million OSHA program for worker training and education?

Health is our principal capital asset and the work which has been done by NIH has been truly spectacular.

Mr. Chairman, we have, on the floor at the moment, the legislation involving the U.S. attorneys who have been asked to resign.

Dr. Zerhouni, as you have testified, the deaths due to cancer have declined in the last 2 years.

So, it is the NIH research which has identified a way for early screening to treat cancer at an early stage.

Elimination of disease, and the suffering that goes with it, ought to be our primary concern.

Attitudes are changed in Washington, with political pressure.

You have two strong allies in Senator Harkin and myself, Dr. Zerhouni, and you have the potential to have 533 more if there's sufficient political pressure brought to bear on Washington, DC.

We, regrettably, cannot use Federal funding on stem cell research, except for a few lines, which were available back on August 9, 2001.

Health is our most important capital asset. Without health, there is nothing any of us can do.

I hear a lot of people--and a lot of my friends are dying of cancer--and I know a lot of people with heart conditions.

Last year, we increased the budget for the subcommittee by $7 billion.

Well, that's why I'm asking you, Dr. Zerhouni.