This is a very important hearing, and I appreciate both of you working together on this and bringing these issues forward.

Any engagement you can do with the Tanzanian Government would be critical--I just want to reiterate the scale of killing there--50,000 elephants--that is from aerial census data--have been killed in that country in 5 years.

What is going on there is a disaster, and any attention, any help you can bring to that--there must be knowledge within the government body of what is happening and why.

The most important thing, I would say tribal leadership taking the lead. They are already taking ownership for problems.

I think American ingenuity can solve many problems like these. We just need to get more innovators and researchers to focus.

I could not agree more with what others have said. It has been very insightful, and I think if we just worked with each other and took a little guidance from you, we could really make a difference on some of these issues.

I plan to introduce legislation in the Senate soon that is a companion to the House-passed Science Prize Competition Act.

We need to be investing in the National Science Foundation's work to fund basic research at universities and that kind of activity across the country.

I could not agree with you more in terms of NIH being woefully underfunded, and also we need the oversight to make sure there is the credibility there.

I think we could be doing more to encourage other agencies to consider this approach to problem solving.

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I couldn't agree with you more.