So again, just to make sure I understand this, a couple of people have already been, already agreed to undergo this gene therapy in London?

So, the first humans in the United States will be at the University of Pennsylvania, is that what you said?

I urge Congress to provide: --$1.7 billion for the Social Services Block Grant (SSBG), the Federal Government's single largest support for child welfare services.

There's some thought that maybe just the accumulation of that may have some affect on autism.

I've been a strong supporter of that, and we put the money in this year to continue that again.

That's very informative. I appreciate that. We will be following that.

Okay, that's good information, that's good information.

It seems to me that you really ought to be really pushing the envelope on this to try to find these kind of patterns and getting more scientists involved and getting more grants.

I thought it was a well-known fact that mercury in the bloodstream does affect the brain.

One other area I want to cover with you, Dr. Schwartz, before I leave you here is, you didn't cover it in your thing, and I want to know if your Institute covers this--noise.

So, will this be publicized?

it doesn't smell right, there's something wrong there.

I thought that was an odd situation, that someone from NIH would be so heavily involved in trying to choose one over the other.

Not me, that's the Inspector General of the Department of Education said that, and we've been looking into it.

That's good. That is good news. So that is what is going to be happening in the future.

Doesn't that, doesn't that gene just go through one parent or the other?

I urge Congress to provide: --$100 million to expand and improve in-home coaching programs like those that would be supported under the Education Begins as Home Act (S. 667).

It's time for the Nation's policymakers to find common ground to make sure that NIH does not lose its historical leadership.