It impacts directly upon juvenile crime. As does the $55 million cut in the Job Corps.

Now we have finally found something we agree upon. That is as ridiculous as it sounds.

Shouldn't there be protections in place to protect workers, in case there is a pandemic? Shouldn't we be prepared.

The funding for the migrant and seasonal farm workers program has been eliminated. Almost $80 million.

it is not inappropriate to raise a question.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman for convening this important hearing and thank you, Dr. Hodes, Dr. Katz, Dr. Nabel, and Dr. Rodgers for joining us this morning to explore the needs of your various Institutes and the impact of the budget cuts…

Public health needs. There, and as you mentioned, the public health urgency here is obvious, to all of us.

I'd like to see it get a little more attention.

The administration has come forward with a cut this year, again. The proposal is to cut NIH by $327 million.

the funding for autism has risen, as I noted, from $27 million in 1998, to a projected budget in 2008 of $107,870,000

We have to be candid about it. The budget resolution is confederate money. Until it gets into an appropriation it doesn't count.

the allocation for autism is substantially less than the allocation for other major research activities

As I think it is fairly well known, Senator Harkin and I, over the course of the past two decades, have taken the lead on increasing funding for the National Institutes of Health so that we have taken it from about $12 billion to about $29…

My view is that the funding through the NIH is insufficient.

Candidly, a budget resolution is only Confederate money, it doesn't really count until there is an allocation.

I'm looking forward to the day when either Senator Harkin or I will be chairman of appropriations. I have a preference.

The work of this subcommittee is well known, and our vigorous advocacy for NIH.

It has been more than 16 months since the mining tragedies at Sago and Alma.