I am interested in how we get my colleagues to spend money for corrections.

There is a willingness to spend money for incarceration.

What should be the governmental response, either through the Veterans Administration of the Department of Defense?

We are taking up the bill to change the authority of the Attorney General to replace U.S. attorneys on an indefinite basis, which has caused a lot of controversy.

Senator Harkin and I are going to be going to the floor and asking for an increase in the budget resolution on NIH.

Speaking of OSHA, why is the administration proposing to eliminate the $10 million OSHA program for worker training and education?

Health is our principal capital asset and the work which has been done by NIH has been truly spectacular.

But what we are looking for, within reason, is finding some way to quantify it.

Dr. Zerhouni, as you have testified, the deaths due to cancer have declined in the last 2 years.

But not for rehabilitation.

Elimination of disease, and the suffering that goes with it, ought to be our primary concern.

These cuts will be very, very difficult to sustain, given the issues which that funding addresses.

We have, on the floor at the moment, the legislation involving the U.S. attorneys who have been asked to resign.

To have an allocation of less than $30 billion, candidly, is scandalous.

How are the allocations made, to have the $107 million, roughly, which is a very, very small part of the NIH budget?

Senator Harkin and I, and this committee--and I think, really, the whole Congress--are determined to increase funding so we can find an answer to autism.

You have two strong allies in Senator Harkin and myself, Dr. Zerhouni, and you have the potential to have 533 more if there's sufficient political pressure brought to bear on Washington, DC.

We, regrettably, cannot use Federal funding on stem cell research, except for a few lines, which were available back on August 9, 2001.