We've got to be very careful, because, I mean, I think about the elections and where we've got situations where you can drop millions of dollars in a congressional district.

The public wants to know more about, you know, who's giving money where.

I have been a member of this committee for 15 years and I never thought I would see the day when our committee would view transparency as the enemy.

Under this logic, all campaign disclosures would be bad, not just new ones.

On Tuesday, a coalition of institutional investors and investor coalitions, collectively managing more than $130 billion, also wrote to express their support.

Many of them feel powerless. Many of them feel that government goes off and does its thing.

Unfortunately, we will not be hearing from these groups today because Chairman Issa refused my request to invite Fred Wertheimer, the president of Democracy 21, to testify on behalf of this coalition.

A stronger democracy. A stronger democracy.

Thank you Chairmen Bingaman and Udall and Ranking Members Murkowksi and Burr for holding today's hearing and for placing my bill, S. 247, The Harriet Tubman National Historical Park and The Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park Act.

So while we're busy--You know, we like to pound our chest and come up with all kinds of things in education to encourage people for science, but our young people are going in it, but they need opportunity, both in the public as well as in the private sector.

I'm very proud of the fact that NIH is located in the State of Maryland.

You were the guy who broke the AIDS code.

I must say both the chairman and the ranking member were enormously supported to minimize the disaster, but it was not a victory.

You broke the code and we invented--not only mapped the code, but came up with new fields called computational biology, bioinformatics.

Well, I think this would be enormously useful to this subcommittee, Mr. Chairman, because, as you know, this is a topic--a big public-policy topic they ponder all of the time.

This might be the last billion you get, unless we really show results. That is not a threat, it is an analysis.

They often get a stigma, 'oh that is the charity hospital, that is where the poor go.'

Essentially the intervention is relatively low tech, as Senator Mikulski noted.