I don't want to destroy that, I don't want to have them say, well, maybe yes, maybe no.

Thank you again for your leadership, all that you're doing at NIH.

But again, should we be putting more energy and effort and money into that, or into building facilities that, when the strain comes out we can put people to work right away developing the vaccine on an RNA basis?

I feel like I can speak authoritatively on this issue because I received my medical degree from Meharry Medical College.

I urge Congress to: --Increase funding for Head Start by at least $750 million to restore funding for services to kids to the fiscal year 2002 level.

I urge Congress to provide: --$545 million for the Promoting Safe and Stable Families program to help communities run in-home parent coaching programs.

That is not--that was never, that should never have been his job.

I would hope that the Chief of the Child Development and Behavior branch would have other things to do than like this.

The noise levels we're subjected to all of the time, whether it's jet aircraft, automobile noise, just the noise around, is phenomenal.

Asthma--more and more kids getting asthma, it's amazing. But tracking with autism, what is going on?

I don't know the answer to that question, obviously.

Somewhere between 20 and 30.

Out of $637 million?

I'm still concerned about that.

How certain are you? I mean, what's the success rate if you had 100 people who became symptomatic with anthrax and you gave them this vaccine? What's the survival rate?

Pancreatic cancer is so bad because there's no early detection.

What would you think about that? I've never talked to Senator Stevens about this but this idea of having advance directives? People don't. They just don't think about it. Maybe when people get on Medicare that ought to be a part of when…

We don't know how many are in each State. We just know there's something going on there, right?