Arlen Specter actually said...

As I think it is fairly well known, Senator Harkin and I, over the course of the past two decades, have taken the lead on increasing funding...

the allocation for autism is substantially less than the allocation for other major research activities

We have to be candid about it. The budget resolution is confederate money. Until it gets into an appropriation it doesn't count.

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