I think that also is a problem because compensation is one thing, but having stock in a company and you are hoping that stock goes up, in other words, goes through the roof, that is quite another thing.

It is Senator Specter who has said many times that it is the crown jewel of our Federal Government.

We take pride in the fact that this was a truly bipartisan effort, spanning two presidential administrations.

I have said before there is a reason why NIH is called the National Institutes of Health.

I believe there will have to be some very substantial remedial steps taken to make sure that the wall of separation between public duties and private gain is maintained.

Do you have any idea how many NIH scientists have received stock as compensation for consulting work?

What time frame do they have? What time frame are you trying to give them?

But we have no idea how many are compensated just monetarily or how many are compensated with stock or stock options.

The grave difficulty is that the regulation on overtime pay will cut back on compensation to many workers in America.

I commend you for appointing this blue ribbon commission.

Do you believe that stock ownership in companies with NIH-funded research presents an ongoing conflict of interest that should be looked at differently in a code of ethics, differently from direct compensation?

Are there any other steps being taken?

As we Iowans say, Howard Dean has his head screwed on right.

If I'm sick with cancer, I just want my claim processed expeditiously.

So this is half the GDP. I'm just saying, if you were spending that much on reconstruction in the United States, half the GDP, it would be $5 trillion in 1 year in the United States.

Conditions have changed, the $800 million is now $1.2 billion.

I do not know how much time we have left, but I want to get into a bit on Afghanistan.

This is why we are concerned that the administration will keep coming back for more and more money for Iraq.