I am actually getting ready to introduce the legislation to re-authorize the program.

It is interesting that you actually mentioned the Dumas scenario.

OK, great. Now, we will go to our second round.

I think there have been increasing numbers of declarations of disaster, and it is kind of hard to be against declaring disaster.

We are here to assess the progress being made in recovering from this spring's devastating tornados, storms, and floods.

Thank you and it is your turn if you would like to ask.

Unfortunately, there is a gap, the so called 'valley of death', where the research needs to mature before companies are willing to invest capital.

I just want to make sure that we, as the government--and probably in this case, it would be FDA--would have the capability of doing the testing and the necessary analysis to make sure that these great, wonderful, amazing new products that…

I think the venture capital idea--what we're trying to do is try to incentivize that.

I think the track record is good.

The National Nanotechnology Initiative is at an important crossroad.