Barbara Mikulski

Good. Now, let me jump in. We could be headed to a shutdown.

So, we're heading to a showdown.

Because, I know that, in my subcommittee, in Commerce/Justice, I can't cut any more.

I'm very proud of the fact that Social Security is headquartered in my State.

A government shutdown, NIH cuts, or delayed appropriations, individually or in combination, will have far-reaching consequences.

You were the guy who broke the AIDS code.

They didn't get it here.

So while we're busy--You know, we like to pound our chest and come up with all kinds of things in education to encourage people for science, but our young people are going in it, but they need opportunity, both in the public as well as in…

So that's what one percent means, $320 million?

It's more like the way my heart went up during the shutdown mode.

Well, I think this would be enormously useful to this subcommittee, Mr. Chairman, because, as you know, this is a topic--a big public-policy topic they ponder all of the time.

I mean, I must say both the chairman and the ranking member were enormously supported to minimize the disaster, but it was not a victory.

But for every one grant that you can fund, let's even go to before fiscal 2011, how many are unfunded?

I'm very proud of the fact that NIH is located in the State of Maryland.

You broke the code and we invented--not only mapped the code, but came up with new fields called computational biology, bioinformatics.

If there is a shutdown, would grant beneficiaries continue to get their funds?

We are on the brink I think of a catastrophic situation.

I think this is really a big deal.

I am terrified that the lights will go out at Johns Hopkins, the University of Maryland.

I think this is a very severe crisis.

Senator Harkin must also be facing the same stress.

We don't want a hard landing.

I'm deeply troubled by the 3,500 employees that will be lost this year.

Social Security is your program. This is the one program that the entire United States Government effects.

And what we're seeing in this is, under every rock is another rock.