Well, you have moved from the area where there had been improvement to your generalization of dissatisfaction.

Do not tell this subcommittee what Congress thinks unless you have some factual basis for it. Do you?

I think it is very, very important.

Nobody should decide for anybody else when the life support systems will be turned off.

When you talk about appropriate funding, one of the issues which has concerned me for many years and I have introduced legislation on, is the very high cost in the last few days, few weeks before death and the really inadequate information…

I think this subcommittee for the past decade-plus has been a model of bipartisan cooperation.

Well, would you take a look at that and see if there is some way that can be worked out to the satisfaction of the State officials?

I commend--there's no doubt about the need for reporting, and for knowing what goes on with union records.

I don't want to spend any more time on ergonomics because I've asked you to supply the materials in writing.

The steel industry is only illustrative of one of the industries which is victimized by foreign subsidies and dumping.

We need to evaluate what your voluntary guidelines are producing.

they will be submitted

It is a big job to administer the Department of Labor, and we are very pleased to work with you on the budget.

Pennsylvania has seen what has been termed to me a major mismatch between eligible recipients and Federal dollars.

Madam Secretary, Pennsylvania has had insufficient funding in that line with the current larger allocation.

Turning to the issue of ergonomics, last year in April you proposed to reduce ergonomic injuries through voluntary guidelines, but to have enforcement under OSHA's general duty clause.

How can that be, with the cut of some $78 million?

Should labor unions be required to have more detailed reporting requirements than their corporate, private corporate counterparts?

Off-hand, on the surface, it would appear to me that 103 ergonomic inspections in all other industries beyond nursing homes is a small number.

Sometime within the next 5 years we would have better information on the complexity of the disease.

We have become a lightning rod for inquiries and demands.

Well, why does it take almost 2 years, Dr. Penn?

There is an inevitable sense that a full-time director with that authority is necessary to move an institute along at top speed.

Dr. Zerhouni, we are having a lot of comments on the Muscular Dystrophy Care Act, which called for the creation of multiple centers of excellence, signed into law in 2001.

It may be an impossible question when we ask when will a cure be found for Parkinson's.