It took a long time to learn that some of the fisheries... was just decimated.

We have to protect the jobs that are related to fishing, recreation, tourism.

I do, however, have some questions about the dispersants themselves.

A group of Louisiana oystermen are claiming that Corexit 9500 is four times more toxic than the oil itself.

I am concerned about the workers who got close to it.

Today we will be examining the issues surrounding the use of chemical dispersants in dealing with the Deepwater spill.

A personal injury lawsuit involving the chemical dispersant Corexit 9500 was filed in Alabama.

I have data that I actually just reported that shows that the Corexit and the tests that we ran, on aquatic species, is less toxic than the oil itself.

Are you aware that on their own sheets, they describe their own product, human health hazard, they define it as acute in each case.

We passed some very tough legislation; Senator Klobuchar and I serve on the Commerce Committee. We were able to ban pthalates in children's products.

So that leads you further to suspect that it is something either in the genes or the environment combined?

I doubt that they have a lot of statistics in Somalia just because I don't think they have a health care system that is capable of doing what we do.

It is very tough to regulate this one chemical at a time.

We clearly have moved to a different place now, where we are looking at the genes, and we are looking at the chemicals that either the parents or the child have been exposed to.

I know how proud she must have been when her daughter founded the first subcommittee on this Committee dealing with children's health.

What do we know about other countries' data?

So is the ultimate--down the road cure for this, if this proves out, gene therapy?

Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family at this time.

I hope you will let us know, all of us here care a lot about this.

I think we are kind of having a fairly clear path here to where we are going.

Thank you very much, Senator Klobuchar.

But isn't one of the goals of the reason we did all that funding for genes is to eventually do gene therapy?

It was an enormous fight. It was an enormous, enormous, terrible, awful fight.

So you would say, from what you know, there is a worldwide increase?

The fact that we are only spending $9 million on autism, something that affects 1 out of 110 children, is just amazing to me.