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.

But not for rehabilitation.

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

It impacts directly upon juvenile crime. As does the $55 million cut in the Job Corps.

These reentry programs and the legislation that is pending now on second chance, these, I think, are of the highest priority.

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.

NIH has researched and found treatments for various strains of cancer, isn't that correct?

It is simply unacceptable to have a $500+ million cut in NIH funding, as proposed by the administration this year.

Senator Harkin and I have taken the lead, as is fairly well known, in increasing the funding for NIH from $12 billion to almost $30 billion.

We are taking up the bill to change the authority of the Attorney General to replace U.S. attorneys on an indefinite basis, which has caused a lot of controversy.

Senator Harkin and I are going to be going to the floor and asking for an increase in the budget resolution on NIH.

But what we are looking for, within reason, is finding some way to quantify it.

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…

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