It has been a remarkable transformation. And it's occurred under your leadership, organizationally a phenomenal feat, and under your stewardship.

What would have happened in Boston if we had been under furloughs?

This is a self-inflicted wound on us. This is not what an external threat from a foreign country or organized crime is doing to us.

Madam Chairwoman, let me acknowledge the leadership that you and this subcommittee have provided to the FBI.

I'm concerned about the negative impact that it has, first of all on the people who work at NIH and those who participate in the extramural programs.

I just wanted to just tell you in the warmest way, and to my colleagues, what a sense of joy and pride that I have representing NIH.

I'm going to work with Senator Harkin and Senator Moran across party lines, to make sure they get the kind of allocation they need to do their job.

We can strengthen the sanctions, and Congress is looking at legislation today to give you additional tools.

I had a chance to meet with the Secretary General of the IAEA recently and I was very impressed that the information that they were sharing was very similar to the information that we had in the United States.

But can we get China to work with us with a new Security Council resolution, that perhaps then they will, since they are part of the development of these sanctions, we get compliance?

I think you are right, getting IAEA more actively engaged with the United Nations and the Security Council puts this at a level that, if we expect Iran to comply with its international obligations, the Security Council is going to have to…

Our strategies are clearly to isolate the Iranian regime as long as it continues to deny compliance with international obligations.

I actually think the FDIC did a very nice job through the financial crisis.

But perfect is the enemy of the good, and we had to save the financial system because the consequences, in my judgment, would have been worse.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Let me thank all of our witnesses.

It seems to me that if we fix SGR--which I am for--and we do not substitute a proposal that deals with the underlying problem, we are going to have a hard time later substituting in the payment structure, it seems to me, politically, if we…

So, if they take a certain amount of information from the outside, they are basically using that to justify their decisions?

So you are projecting a slower growth rate in volume over the next decade than in the past decade?