Arlen Specter actually said...

the funding for autism has risen, as I noted, from $27 million in 1998, to a projected budget in 2008 of $107,870,000

The administration has come forward with a cut this year, again. The proposal is to cut NIH by $327 million.

I'd like to see it get a little more attention.

Public health needs. There, and as you mentioned, the public health urgency here is obvious, to all of us.