Kit Bond

Mr. George, your testimony indicates that the Corporation did not respond until it realized that the CR prevented them from budgeting funds for the Trust.

Mr. George, your testimony states that your investigation found that Trust liability projections were not being made by Trust staff but by a senior-level official in the Corporation's executive office.

There are lots of people who want to kill it, and there are lots more who still want to kill it.

In my opinion, requesting an expansion of the AmeriCorps program right now is like proposing to build an addition to a broken house.

This is truly exciting, and it is not only the cold chain, but for the small child that is going to get vaccinated, a banana is certainly a lot less threatening than a needle or a bunch of pinpricks.

I will try to provide additional funds for the Foundation in the fiscal year 2004 bill.

I wear them as a badge of honor. Thank you very much.

Senator, this is one of the most exciting developments, the ability to insert vaccine genes into a banana or a potato.

Let me assure you you have my support.

Unfortunately, Africa is being afflicted with and infected with the eurosclerosis, which has come from certain scientific know-nothings who think that plant biotechnology is going to create the tomato that eats Missouri.

If you need more resources let us know, because we want to make sure that that 60-mile-an-hour car is going in the right direction.

Two years does seem a bit long.

I hope the Board will also hire its own legal counsel so that the Board understands the laws that we pass.

Let me reflect upon a comment or recommendation made by the CBO, which suggested that when you look at the priorities...

If you would send me a small packet of information on that I would like to find out more about it.

I do not mean to push you, but if you are going to be looking at the full recommendation some time in May, I certainly hope it is earlier May rather than later May, because we are going to be putting our bill together in May, and the…

If the Federal Government continues the present pattern of funding between life sciences and physical sciences, it will, quote, lead to an inability to sustain our Nation's technical and scientific leadership, end of quote.

The tremendous challenge that our Nation faces is our failure to educate enough mathematicians, scientists, and engineers

I am alarmed and troubled by this disparity, because a decline in funding for the physical sciences has put our Nation's capabilities for scientific innovation at risk

I believe we have gone far enough down that line. Now back to work.

We want the air cleaned up and we do not want the economy killed, and if we can move forward on both of them.

Suits are fine, but I have never seen a court clean up a stinkhole yet.

The 11-hour ozone containment date is of some concern for St. Louis.

I want to figure out who is going to get their hands dirty to clean it up.

I would say that some of our water needs also are critically important.