we're both very dismayed by this, and we're going to try to everything we can to get a better allocation this year for NIH.

But in the case of a pandemic even after spending this money, it will take us months to develop a vaccine.

But you can assure that this 10 percent cut is no longer valid because of the----

It's one of the few cancers for which mortality rates are virtually the same today as they were 30 years ago.

I've had others say the same thing. By the time you detect it, it's too late.

Tell me more about that.

How soon?

I just hope that we can get a little bit better budget than what the President requested.

I know Senator Specter and I both wish we could have done more for NIH.

We might as well start where we started with Dr. Kirschstein.

Here's the law that set it up.

How many, do we know?

I urge Congress to provide: --$200 million for the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to help improve State child protection services.

I just wonder if there's an untapped pool out there of nurses who may be in their late 30s, early 40s that would get back in if they had the wherewithal to do so.

You actually have it in the stockpile now.

I'm always interested when people tell me they've doubled, or something's gone up by 100 percent.

Are you looking, there was for some time this thought that Thimerosal was a leading cause.

Well, that is encouraging, and we need to move ahead as aggressively as possible, and I would like to know from you if the funding levels are adequate to move it as aggressively as possible?