My question was just why the environmental-based research was funded at much less than the recommendation.

It's also been held up as a model, too, of what we have done with the IACC.

But it gets back to your last point, which was that they were not conducting duplicative review overall within--and that should be one of the primary purposes of the IACC, right?

Well, my dad used to say, it is not how much you spend; it is how you spend it.

I just want the record to clearly reflect this isn't any attempt to cut funds, or to, again, do away with research that is needed.

We still believe there is room for improvement.

They didn't look at NSF?

Mr. Speaker and my colleagues, I am going to ask a couple of questions. First of all, I have to give a disclaimer that I was one of the Members on this side of the aisle that did not favor a select committee. I actually took my name off of…

What difference does it make? People were asleep at the switch. They need to be held accountable again, regardless of rank. This is the United States of America. This is the Congress. People sent us here. They are out there trying to make…

I think also that marijuana can be detected in the bloodstream for some time after its use, but the whole question of driving impaired is raised.

No decision has been made yet whether Congress will contest or overturn--or attempt to overturn the District law that has been passed.