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…

I think this is a very severe crisis.

I think this is really a big deal.

We could be headed to a shutdown.

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

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

Senator Harkin must also be facing the same stress.

I can't cut any more.

I'm deeply troubled about where we are on the cuts to Social Security, the contemptuous attack on Social Security as a benefit.

I believe that demography is destiny.

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

But, this was a terrific hearing, and you've got a great panel, here.

And it's our job to resolve the crisis. Thanks for being so candid.

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.

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

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

We have to make sure they have the right pay, the right resources, and the right respect.

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

So, we're heading to a showdown.

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

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

I am here representing 150 million women in the United States of America, and they are bewitched, bothered, and bewildered by what the Congress, particularly the House of Representatives, in H.R. 1, has done to women. Women all over…

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