Do you think it would be appropriate to ask a man in your position to file a public financial disclosure statement?
I just wanted to see how anxious you were to weigh in on that.
Would not at minimum those individuals fit into the category of the kind of responsibilities which would warrant public disclosures?
Are you not in a position, knowing that, to impose a sanction if one is appropriate?
I think these rules need transparency, need strengthening, et cetera, but I think it would be a mistake for a complete prohibition.
I think the hearing has been very productive.
It is not easy to run all these hearings without a scorecard, and we do not work on a text.
The Congress really does not want to get into this, if we do not have to, to micro-manage what you are doing, but I think that there are rea...
Do you think there would be a significant loss of researchers at NIH if there was a blanket prohibition against consulting fees or owning st...
Well, the agencies do not appear to be moving with much dispatch on it.
How do you define those broad responsibilities?
So you are saying there need not be a change in the statute? That was my question.
Obviously, there can be an inquiry into each individual case to see, on the facts of that individual case, whether there is a violation of t...
What is the consequence to an NIH employee who has this kind of a relationship and does not make the required financial disclosure?
Well, it would require a very intensive investigation to make a determination as to whether that line was crossed.
I am very much interested in your views on that as an evaluation which we are going to have to go into greater depth on.
Are you saying that you are suspending these arrangements while the investigation goes on?
If you accept the facts as I have stated them, would people in that category not be fairly asked to file public financial disclosure forms?
