Tom Harkin

Again, it is a good debate. We should have more of these kinds of exchanges on the Senate floor. I respect my friend, and I respect his approach. Again, we have our differences in the way we approach things. I picked up on one word my…

That is what I thought. My proposal is to change the environment. That is what we have to do. I say we have to change the environment. The American people want it changed, the scientific community wants it changed, the head of NIH--former…

Sure, but why is 9 p.m. of August 9 the moral dividing line that Federal funds can be used on stem cell lines? Before that it is moral, but after that it is immoral. I cannot understand that.

Who decides? Who decides when that embryo is not implantable? How is that decided? I am told there is no scientific dividing line on that. It is sort of an eyeball test. One scientist might say no, another scientist may say yes. Your bill…

I ask my friend for further clarification. Is it not true that some of these after 7 days could be implantable?

I just want to read, though, from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation that obviously has been following this issue very closely. They said that today's report underscores the need for continued work across a range of important…

Senator Brownback's list also included spinal cord injury. Here is a letter from the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation: While there are indeed a number of promising avenues now being investigated that address paralysis and spinal cord…

I feel like I can speak authoritatively on this issue because I received my medical degree from Meharry Medical College.

I urge Congress to provide: --$1.7 billion for the Social Services Block Grant (SSBG), the Federal Government's single largest support for child welfare services.

I urge Congress to: --Increase funding for Head Start by at least $750 million to restore funding for services to kids to the fiscal year 2002 level.

I urge Congress to provide: --$200 million for the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to help improve State child protection services.

I urge Congress to provide: --$545 million for the Promoting Safe and Stable Families program to help communities run in-home parent coaching programs.

I urge Congress to provide: --$100 million to expand and improve in-home coaching programs like those that would be supported under the Education Begins as Home Act (S. 667).

Thanks for all of your leadership, Dr. Alexander.

That's good. That is good news. So that is what is going to be happening in the future.

Doesn't that, doesn't that gene just go through one parent or the other?

Okay, that's good information, that's good information.

I want to thank all of you for coming down, it's been a good session.

I was very much involved in writing that law.

I thought that was an odd situation, that someone from NIH would be so heavily involved in trying to choose one over the other.

That is not--that was never, that should never have been his job.

Not me, that's the Inspector General of the Department of Education said that, and we've been looking into it.

It doesn't smell right, there's something wrong there.

I would hope that the Chief of the Child Development and Behavior branch would have other things to do than like this.

But you don't know when this is going to happen.