there's nothing we couldn't do. We could make it all happen. There's enough political pressure to do that.

I think we made some dramatic progress, and I want to thank my colleague from Iowa and Senator Specter from Pennsylvania for all their leadership in that regard.

I still need to know, and if you don't have it right now, if you'd provide it for the record, about how much of that $108 million goes in for environmental.

Thank you, Senator Specter.

We've got to get the families some help. People are looking to us for answers and some help.

I do not know why--what is the reason for a 32 percent cut when we have over 60 percent unemployment among people with disabilities.

A 9.4 percent cut in this budget is--it is not good.

OSHA's own estimates indicate that requiring employers to pay for basic personal protective equipment such as safety goggles and earplugs could prevent workers from suffering nearly 50,000 workplace injuries per year.

Doesn't that, doesn't that gene just go through one parent or the other?

Well, why one citation in the last 2 years, when you have all these injuries? Why only one citation?

Our goal is to help workers by reducing ergonomic injuries in the shortest possible timeframe.

I still just repeat for emphasis sake, and I am going to have the IG look at this earmarking, the 90 percent.

Well, I would respectfully disagree with you on that.

I want to find out who this performance review board is, and how they are picked, and how many.

Who makes up that performance review board anyway? How are they appointed? How are they picked? Who picks? How many are there?

It has now been 8 years since a standard was first proposed. Despite repeated assurances, OSHA has let this fundamental worker safety requirement languish.

But what we are looking for, within reason, is finding some way to quantify it.

Senator Harkin and I are going to be going to the floor and asking for an increase in the budget resolution on NIH.