My point is, do you see any special effort by NIH today to reach out to small, innovative companies to try to make sure that they are included in the Recovery funds?

We need to make sure that NIH continues its extremely important mission, that the universities can do the work that they are doing, and the small, innovative companies have the capital they need.

I support research funding for our universities. I think that is important research.

Well, I am hoping the same can be said, Senator Cardin, as others have sent that message to them.

Okay. All right, August 1st.

we have got to produce and we have got to see results.

One of the things that is very important, too, is mentoring.

total workforce diversity is critically important to the Coast Guard. We view diversity as both mission relevant and an organizational imperative.

I have a vision for how this can come about with regard to the civil rights program.

I want to thank you for doing that. But now we have got to have results.

This Country cannot be all that it is supposed to be if we are caught up in a culture of mediocrity; it just can't.

Why don't we just make a date, say September 1st?

I want that little boy, that white boy in Roanoke, Virginia, I want him to have a chance to be in the Coast Guard, and I want that African American in San Francisco to have a chance if they are qualified.

We want to move the process along. We don't know how much time we have in these positions.

I want dates for those things; I don't want to just wait until the end.

I want to get some of those kids, young people, into the Coast Guard Academy, and I want to get them in so that they will be a part of the pipeline.

I think that we are definitely moving in the right direction, no doubt about it.

You know, one of the things that is a little bit disturbing about these charts is that when we look at completed applications, Class of 2009 for African Americans there were 55, Class of 2010 there were 52, Class of 2011 there were 39…