This health care reform act is a vehicle not for health care. This is a vehicle to take us down to a path of total socialism and totalitarianism.

You want to be led out of here, you are welcome to go.

I think there ought to be a bigger share for autism, and we're pushing to make that happen.

This is why Autism Speaks strongly supports Senator Specter' s 'Cures Acceleration Network' (CAN Act)...

Autism is a heartbreaking ailment, and of the many issues we have to face, among the toughest, talking to parents who have children who suffer from autism.

Senator Harkin and Senator Cochran and I have worked hard on funding for the NIH, and for a decade we were able to raise funding from $12 to $30 billion.

We're trying to get $10 billion added, as a base of 30--start with 40--which would give us a better opportunity to do more on this very, very important ailment.

If you're confirmed, do you promise to be courteous.

I believe there is a strong nexus between the patent system, the innovation capability behind the patent system and fueling sustainable innovation, like innovation that benefits the environment.

I would be interested in your views and interested in your assurances that you would do whatever is possible to expedite the patent applications for environmental issues.

That is a very good answer and doing that will satisfy everybody.

Senator Lautenberg and I, and Senator Schumer, would like to extend it up to Binghamton to create a Wall Street West in the Pocono area.

I want to thank my colleague, Senator Carper, for his leadership on this important issue.

Many of us have been trying for a long time to get clean coal technology to ease that issue.

There is no doubt of the great importance of this issue in many directions: cleaning up the environment, stopping this threat of carbon, reducing our dependence on OPEC oil, which has tremendous ramifications politically with Iran being…

Congress is very anxious to support you and make the most generous allocations that we can to the National Institutes of Health.

It is scandalous that more has not been done since war was declared on cancer in 1970.

I think Dr. Curran and Dr. Kaufman are modest in just wanting three and one-half-times the $30 billion. I think the yield would be greater.

I think Tom Curran actually said it earlier.

You, Senator, have been a leading light, and a much needed, advocate for the NIH.

There is no conversation that I've ever had about the grant system that doesn't have an incredible sense of consensus that it is not working.

While work is underway to reform our Nation's healthcare delivery system, we must continue to make medical research a national priority.

So if you put up more money, you get more applications?

I think it's important for us to develop new metrics to determine the potential of innovative research.

It's the Kaufman review process?