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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Mar 19, 2007

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.

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Mar 19, 2007

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

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Mar 19, 2007

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.

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Mar 19, 2007

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

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Mar 19, 2007

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

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Mar 19, 2007

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

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Mar 19, 2007

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

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Mar 19, 2007

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.

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Mar 19, 2007

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

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Mar 19, 2007

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?

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Mar 19, 2007

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?

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Mar 19, 2007

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

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Mar 19, 2007

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

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Mar 19, 2007

You actually have it in the stockpile now.

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Mar 19, 2007

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.

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Tom Harkin
@tomharkin· Democratic · IA· Mar 19, 2007

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

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