Arlen Specter

Experience has shown that there are many of these body-building supplements which are sold over the counter which may contain steroids.

The Federal laws which govern this subject are complex.

Failure to comply with Federal law may result in criminal penalties.

How long were you in the hospital?

Senator Grassley and I, when he chaired the Finance Committee and I chaired the Judiciary Committee, went after the SEC on failure to deal with insider trading.

Hard to understand how aiders and abetters are not liable.

The tradition has been that nominees are never asked how they are going to decide cases.

I was more than surprised; I was shocked.

What Senator Harkin and I can have some influence on is the appropriations process.

What comes through to me is that we just don't know what the answer is.

We have a duty to do more about protecting children.

I, obviously, have been explicit before in promoting this as a Senator from Pennsylvania, and I am authorized to say that Senator Casey joins me in this effort.

I think that there is a commitment clearly by the U.S. Government, as I mentioned before, by both HHS and DOD to begin to explore a path forward to fill some of the gaps that we recognize.

I think it definitely requires that we have a facility that the Government has sufficient control over.

I was in support of the Government-owned, contractor-operated.

So something like 70,000 jobs.

I look for a competitive bidding at the end of the rainbow, and I am going to be pushing hard to land it for Pittsburgh in the 7,000 jobs.

The additional funding that was provided in the last year, the additional $10 billion, has allowed us now to take up some of those projects that otherwise would not have been funded.

But then with the stimulus package, the amendment, which I offered, got into the bill for $10 billion extra.

There has been an incredible impact on biomedicine.

We took the lead in increasing it to $30 billion, some years as much as $3.5 billion added.

In my first year in the Senate, the NIH budget was $3.6 billion, but when I became chairman... the NIH budget was $12 billion.

When I was elected to the Senate in 1980, the first committee I chose was Appropriations because of its power, candidly, in bringing money back to the State.

Thank you for your extraordinary efforts to provide increased funding for biomedical research through the NIH.

Senator Specter, I appreciate your leadership and focus on this issue, and hope my testimony will be informative.