Harold Volkmer: “I would like to carry on. Like I said before in my presentation, there is no question about it, ANS was ended because…”

“I would like to carry on. Like I said before in my presentation, there is no question about it, ANS was ended because ANS was going to cost too dang much money. We already had spent millions of dollars on it; throw it away, throw it away. But we had people on the payroll down there. We have got to keep them working. But we do not worry about, like the gentleman from Rhode Island says, we do not worry about young women that are out here going to have babies; because they are poor, tough, you are not going to get any help. We do not worry about the senior citizens in my district who are going to have to pay over $100 a month on Medicare part B in a few years under their program. We do not worry about them, because they are only getting $300 or $400 a month Social Security. You are going to take it and do that. And you say, ``No, we need basic research.'' Yes, we need basic research. But, like I said, we have got to establish priorities. Theirs is they want the scientists. They want them to have the money. I, like the gentleman from Rhode Island, I want to take care of the people that are here today that are suffering, and under your programs, they are going to suffer a heck of a lot more. I do not see that as a very good priority.”