I mean, I'm looking at the figures. This says something to me.
To try to compare it to publicly held corporations, why is that analogous?
I do not think you can. I think we just cannot go to zero funding for 1 year.
My point is, you asked for 2.6 percent.
Well, then, Dr. Zerhouni, let me carry this one step further.
In fiscal year 2003, Congress funded more than $300 million for extramural construction with allergies and infectious di...
I have met with families in Iowa about this. And I am concerned, as Senator Specter, that the leading cause of infant mo...
But if we make the choice here to continue to fund extramural construction, then you will not have that money for resear...
Senator Specter and I are both, with his leadership and with my support, starting to get on another pathway of trying to...
we have to push hard on that. We have to get this thing moving. And I do not know why it has not by now.
I am going to keep proposing that the President has to put that in his budget next year.
Dr. Zerhouni, are you advising us that we should zero out all funding for renovation and building of laboratory faciliti...
The President's budget is far from adequate to help schools meet the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act.
The $400 million cut for 21st Century Community Learning Centers would mean no more after-school services for 550,000 ch...
That is unconscionable.
If that is the case, then there has to be some cuts in other Cabinet agencies.
But this budget cuts funding for the No Child Left Behind programs by $1.2 billion from this year's level.
This budget is totally inadequate. And it is leaving us in a heck of a situation here to try to correct it and get the e...