We look forward to your testimony.

What is the evidentiary base for your conclusion that there has been a 65 percent reduction in teen pregnancy?

Thank you, Senator Arlen Specter, for funding us for these past few years on carrying out our goals for abstinence-only education.

We will double Federal funding for abstinence programs so schools can teach this fact of life.

those are funds that you, Senator Specter, were very instrumental in providing.

Thank you very much, Rev. Page, for your testimony.

Abstinence education has demonstrated its value in a society where there is so much concern about the morality of the young people and access to abortions.

to encourage right choices we must be willing to confront the dangers young people face, even when they are difficult to talk about.

So you are saying there need not be a change in the statute? That was my question.

How do you define those broad responsibilities?

Do you think there would be a significant loss of researchers at NIH if there was a blanket prohibition against consulting fees or owning stock in a pharmaceutical company?

How long would it take to have a change in regulation?

Well, the agencies do not appear to be moving with much dispatch on it.

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 useful in covering the consensus on public disclosure without any complex definitions.

Are you not in a position, knowing that, to impose a sanction if one is appropriate?

Would not at minimum those individuals fit into the category of the kind of responsibilities which would warrant public disclosures?

Is there any reason why a governmental employee making as much as the Vice President should not be required to fill out a public financial disclosure form?