Will you furnish this to the subcommittee, since we were concerned about analysis of this memorandum of understanding?

I'm very upset with the President and his people at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for what they did on that.

This is a very important time, as you said, in the history of drug development.

our Nation continues to face an unemployment rate more than 8 percent, the longest stretch of high unemployment in this Nation since the Great Depression.

Do you understand that these rules, as we understand it, and they are being implemented, will kill American jobs, not create them?

Our Nation's leading researchers will never find a cure, I believe, for the debilitating diseases that affect us without a commitment to advancing medical research.

This proposal limits the amount of rewards one investigator can receive through the peer-review process and does not let science dictate funding decisions.

Can I get into the ship modifications of the Navy a little bit.

What we want to do is create jobs, sustain jobs, isn't it?

I support the goal of the NCATS to invest in research that moves a potential therapy from development to market.

Could you provide us with some more detail, if you have any yet, of which programs are being delayed, and why?

This is not the time to abandon our commitment to the health of all Americans and to the NIH.