The NIH Reform Act that we passed last year puts a big emphasis on the common fund.

The President's budget now is more than $500 million below last year, without considering an inflationary increase.

Have you suggested any reforms to this committee and to the Congress?

I am just sorry to see that we are having this conflict on it. Because I just do not think we want to back down on that one and back off of what we have been doing around the world.

Do you feel that DOL is doing what it can to proactively improve overall FMLA compliance and employee understanding of their rights?

I appreciate that very much, Senator Specter.

I want to thank all of you. It has been very enlightening.

By the way, Head Start is not an educational program; it is a social skills program with education added in.

Well, there would have to be a statute change for the States to do it, too.

But GAO--but they are looking--what they are talking about is the actual picture.

The fiscal year 2008 budget requests $14 million for international labor affairs. A decrease of $58.4 million from last year. An 80 percent cut.

You really hold that it is 50 percent?

Dr. Insel, would you be the proper person that I would ask this question of?

What we do at NIH... leaves a legacy that just cannot be expressed in monetary terms.

We do not pay Head Start teachers well enough.

That is what the Head Start program is for.

When do you think you will be ready to go to higher mammals?

I just hope that within our budget confines that we can move ahead more aggressively on this whole area of autism than we ever have before.