Are you setting a 90-day time limit?

So you think we might need a statutory change?

Where you have a record of NIH employees owning stock and taking consulting fees and doing research which directly relates to the specific company and not filing financial disclosures, why should those employees, who are paid more than…

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?

Are you saying that you are suspending these arrangements while the investigation goes on?

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.

Well, it would require a very intensive investigation to make a determination as to whether that line was crossed.

What is the consequence to an NIH employee who has this kind of a relationship and does not make the required financial disclosure?

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 the rules and regulations.

To combat that kind of inciting video of the suicide bombers and what you have plans to do to come to hand-to-hand combat with that kind of trash, garbage, and incitement.

Well, it's a subtle matter as to how you combat it.

$20 million was given to the Palestinian Authority to help Abu Masen in his effort to become the Prime Minister.

Anything that, head-on, hits the inducement to these young Palestinians to commit suicide with a bombing?

Let us know what is being done at the present time----

Well, we'd like to have it, because every year we take a look at your request for money, and the budget is extremely tight, and we'd like to know what value is being received by the U.S. Government for the $17 million a year.

Where they refused to sign the pledge, do you advance U.S. aid to them?

Well, okay, that's good news.

Well, are you essentially saying that the way things are today, with former Prime Minister Abu Masen having departed, that there will be no further payments by the U.S. Government to the Palestinian Authority?