Today, thanks in large part to the leadership of Dr. Anthony Fauci, HIV is a manageable chronic disease, and we know how to prevent it.

I am so proud of all that we have done--all of us here--often on a bipartisan basis, to transform the National Institutes of Health into truly the jewel and the crown of biomedical research not only in the United States, but globally.

But if we do not do something about Alzheimer's, that is a tsunami that is going to hit us big time.

Are you working with the National Institute on Aging? Is there any connectivity between the BRAIN Initiative and Alzheimer's research?

Thanks again to all that initial work. And thanks to the work of Dr. Collins and his colleagues at NIH. We can now sequence the human genome at a fraction of the cost that it required, and in a shorter timeframe.

it was Senator Mikulski who really moved the ball forward on that.

I was struck by how the Air Force could maintain its overall end strength, overall capabilities, and its strategic depth, as well as save the taxpayer money by shifting more personnel and capabilities into the reserve components.

the funding for NIH is not only the here and the now, but it is the next generation.

Basic research needs to be--we just have to fund it.

This bill honors significant investments this committee made in those programs just last year.

We all have things we like and things we don't like, but we must try to refrain from making any one issue a 'deal breaker.'

I am deeply concerned about proposed cuts to the Community Services Block Grant program and LIHEAP.

So your budget request increases HCFAC funding by $428 million? Is that, which you are saying?

Yes, lifting the cap on the mandatory side gives you that $428 million.

Do you have something in your budget request that zeroes in on this?

A big issue.

What would that be, about how much a year, which you anticipate that would be in terms of discretionary budget?

That is lifting the cap?