If we convey a sense that we are looking for a greater sense of urgency, if you get that message today, you are right.

These people come to us and say, you are giving NIH all the money. What is happening? I do not like to hear talk of long periods of time on appointing steering committees.

How are you doing, Dr. Lenfant, on finding a cure for scleroderma?

Sometime within the next 5 years we would have better information on the complexity of the disease.

There is no precise, cannot be a precise, evaluation of what the risk is of a smallpox attack.

The prevalence of autism is increasing, with the disease affecting, as we understand it, some 500,000 people in this country at a cost of $13 billion annually.

But at the moment, the policy is sort of--perhaps it is not drifting along, but it is pretty hard to formulate it with precision.

I broach the subject of some delicacy now, which has already been communicated to you.

I opposed an amendment which would have prohibited the Treasury Department from going to private collection agencies because I think it is a matter that you ought to decide.

I urge you to keep a close watch on that particular aspect.

I supported the President because I think it is worth a try.

The Senate passed a resolution to push ahead with our Finance Committee and our Joint Economics Committee with analysis of a flat tax.

How can we justify the elimination of the entire program with a $167 million cut?

The GEAR UP Program is also cut.

We would appreciate that.

It seems to me that that is exactly the kind of a program we ought to be emphasizing, where those inner city youth are most at risk.

Thank you, Senator Harkin, for insisting on not interceding.

Evidently, those images were shared by members of the U.S. House of Representatives, who passed H.R. 2505, the Human Cloning Prohibition Act.