Do you think it would be appropriate to ask a man in your position to file a public financial disclosure statement?
The first line is to have transparency with a public disclosure so that people can see what is going on.
Well, the agencies do not appear to be moving with much dispatch on it.
Where you have a record of NIH employees owning stock and taking consulting fees and doing research which directly relat...
So you think we might need a statutory change?
I just wanted to see how anxious you were to weigh in on that.
But these allegations will give fuel to people who want to cut back on your funding.
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 thin...
It is not easy to run all these hearings without a scorecard, and we do not work on a text.
I think the hearing has been very productive.
Would not at minimum those individuals fit into the category of the kind of responsibilities which would warrant public ...
Are you not in a position, knowing that, to impose a sanction if one is appropriate?
I think the hearing has been very useful in covering the consensus on public disclosure without any complex definitions.
I think these rules need transparency, need strengthening, et cetera, but I think it would be a mistake for a complete p...
Do you think there would be a significant loss of researchers at NIH if there was a blanket prohibition against consulti...
How do you define those broad responsibilities?
Are you setting a 90-day time limit?
So you are saying there need not be a change in the statute? That was my question.