Thank you very much, Ms. Lesh. Thank you Mr. Evans, Ms. Urrutia, Reverend Page, Mr. Fay.

If we can persuade young people to avoid premarital sex and unintended pregnancies there will be an enormous step forward.

There are some who believe that there ought not to be only abstinence education but abstinence should be taught in conjunction with contraception.

Abstinence education has demonstrated its value in a society where there is so much concern about the morality of the young people and access to abortions.

Thank you for coming up to Harrisburg, Ms. Leiphart, and we look forward to your testimony.

Thank you very much, Rev. Page, for your testimony.

to encourage right choices we must be willing to confront the dangers young people face, even when they are difficult to talk about.

In my budget, this is the President speaking, I propose a grassroots campaign to help inform families about these medical risks.

I regret being a little bit delayed, but I was filing my papers for reelection.

Thank you very much. Turn now to Ms. Miranda Shipley, Fairfield, Pennsylvania, high school senior and volunteer of Peer Education with the Real Commitment program.

We will double Federal funding for abstinence programs so schools can teach this fact of life.

We look forward to your testimony.

When you said that you are not only sleeping with the person, you are sleeping with all the people whom he or she had slept with and all the people whom they have slept with, et cetera, I saw a fascinating chart in one of the schools.

What is the evidentiary base for your conclusion that there has been a 65 percent reduction in teen pregnancy?

You're against abstinence?

I do not know what the Rendell administration plans to do. But I ask you, Senator Specter, to join with our coalition in requesting that the public be allowed to see this study.

those are funds that you, Senator Specter, were very instrumental in providing.

Ms. Lesh, when you made a comment about abstinence prevention, not intervention, that's an interesting concept.

Rev. Page, you assigned statistics of 65 percent of your teens had a reduction in pregnancy. Can you amplify that just a little more?

Thank you, Senator Arlen Specter, for funding us for these past few years on carrying out our goals for abstinence-only education.

Do you think there would be a significant loss of researchers at NIH if there was a blanket prohibition against consulting fees or owning stock in a pharmaceutical company?

Are you taking any action to suspend these arrangements while the investigation goes on?

Where you have a record of NIH employees owning stock and taking consulting fees and doing research which directly relates to the specific company and not filing financial disclosures, why should those employees, who are paid more than…

Is there no appeal process from what the Office of Government Ethics rules?

Are you setting a 90-day time limit?