If necessary, we can certainly stipulate anything that you suggest in legislation, and we want to get the damn thing done. Is that pretty clear?

Mr. Secretary, in the recent Defense news article, it was reported that you sent a memorandum to Department's research directors and the procurement chiefs to stop the practice of requiring or asking our defense companies to 'supplement…

We may have to have a bipartisan amendment along with Senator Santorum, too, on the funding level if we maintain the S&T budget to the degree that we remain competitive.

Now is a critical time.

Bless your heart. I am so happy to hear you say that. It mirrors what Senator Landrieu said in her opening statement, and I applaud that statement.

the godfather of the hearing is entitled to take whatever time that he might wish.

you are right on the money in that respect.

I have been very supportive and am a very strong supporter of putting more money into NIH.

If we do not maintain our technological advantage in our military capability, our national security capability, I can assure you that the red carpets that are usually out in Europe for all of us who go there from time to time will turn to…

Well, that is the peanut that I am interested in. We will name it after Senator Santorum.

My Lord, we got Viagra before we could get this thing.

How do we speed that up?

Technology of the past cannot answer our needs for today and the future. We need lighter, more fuel-efficient vehicles.

We need better forms of power storage. We need orders of magnitude increase in data storage capabilities.

Rest assured, this subcommittee will continue to make that investment that Dr. Kuper was talking about in science and technology because it is our future.

If so, in fact, this is the weapon of the future as described in the combat situations that you have described and this is acceptable to the Services, I am assuming the Army, and the Marines, and others, how many years away are we from…

If you are trying to stop a bleeding wound, it seems to me that is a little higher priority than gulping down a pill or two for whatever ails you.

It is not technology as the Senator has indicated. It is a resource situation.