think of this for a moment. 30 years ago -- 30 years ago, 19% of all the n.i.h. medical researchers were under the age of 36. 30 years ago under the age of 36. 19% of them. now, 3%. younger people are not moving toward medical research because they're uncertain of our national commitment in this area. shame on us. at a time when we should be enticing the best and brightest in the world to get involved in biomedical research, our indecision and lack of leadership at the governmental level is failing to fund these entities and this effort. i asked dr. collins, what is the kind of commitment we should make as a nation in medical research that can make a dramatic difference? he said, senator, if you could give us 5% real growth a year, beyond inflation, 5% a year for 10 years, i'll promise you we'll make dramatic progress. so i did a calculation. i asked my staff, what would it cost us as a nation to increase medical research 5% a year for 10 years? well, they've added the national institutes of health, the center for disease control, the department of defense medical

as always before the show i'm scribbling the phrase n.i.h. n.i.h.dniho for no reason. there's not much in the world i truly love besides my family, my country, my collection of antique ceramic cats. hello morris. but above all my heart belongs to my belied. [cheers and applause] so when i tuned into his program last night, like i do every night -- [laughter] -- it was kind of a good news, bad news situation. >> tonight i'm taking on the ever so funny jon stewart of the "the daily show". stuart and his -- stewarts and his friends at comedy central they are the cheeft apologists for the obama administration. i can't expect a comedic hack and his army of writers, i can't take them too seriously. >> jon: o my god, o oh, my god. just wait. just wait. sean hannity knows my name. [ laughter ] i'll be honest with you, the hack thing hurts a little, but the wound is heeled by the -- healed by the ointment of your attention. [laughter] sean there, well, he was upset that on monday i may have mentioned that he was being hypocritical in defending the nevada rancher and militant fed

the research. >> let's talk about funding, because your website states very clearly, n.i.h. ly $31 billion, less than 10% goes to autism. talk to me about money and where we are with the research. >> so right now, you just hit the nail on the head. one-half of the n.i.t. budget, and for a developmental disorder, that is the most prevalent of any, that's a stunning statistic. we have legislation pending right now this year, combatting autism act up for renewal. that's the primary vehicle for funding research at the n.i.h., it has bipartisan support, unprecedented 350 members of congress behind this who recognize without the research on the front end, we are never going to make progress. we certainly don't get enough money. we're doing a lot of research ourselves. autism speaks has funded $200 million for research since it started. right now we're doing a tremendous breakthrough project in genomics, which should identify there are many kinds of autisms, which should allow us to do customized treatment, the way it happens with cancer, the development, and we're studying environm

as always before the show i'm scribbling the phrase n.i.h. n.i.h.dniho for no reason. country, my collection of antique ceramic cats. hello morris. but above all my heart belongs to my belied. [cheers and applause] so when i tuned into his program last night, like i do every night -- [laughter] -- it was kind of a good news, bad news situation. >> tonight i'm taking on the ever so funny jon stewart of the "the daily show". stuart and his -- stewarts and his friends at comedy central

all of the health care innovation has grown out of the n.i.h. >> in his ten years as ceo, immelt has remade g.e., selling off half the company he inherited, including plastics, insurance, and nbc. >> oh, my god. >> they're selling nbc to a company called kabletown... with a "k." >> at the same time, he has refocused the company on manufacturing, bulking up units like transportation, energy, and research and development. as jobs czar, he's urging his fellow ceos to double their hiring of engineers and devote more money to r&d. at g.e., he's triple-spending on everything from medical research to green technology, including the building of a solar panel factory in the u.s., even as other american solar companies are folding. is this something that's incredibly risky for you? >> in g.e., this is extremely low risk because we have good technology and we have scale. the crime for us is when we don't do things like that. we ought to be percolating 20 $1-billion businesses all the time that can grow inside our system. >> but even while he promotes american innovation, he's been accused of tra

changes could be a key to unlocking the causes and progression of the disease. n.i.h. has also made significant progress over the past several years and we continue to support them moving more aggressively toward developing new treatments for alzheimer's. related studies on early stages clinical trials are underway. a sustained federal commitment to research for alzheimer's will improve health outcomes for people living with the disease both today and in the future and will also lower health care costs. i have been and remain committed to prioritizing the funding for alzheimer's research. recently i and other members of the committee worked to include $1 billion funding increase for national institutes of health in the 2014 omnibus appropriations bill. this amount includes a $100 million increase in funding for the national institute of aging within n.i.h. as well as the initial year of funding for the new brain initiative to map the human brain. these research investments are critically important because they will increase our understanding of the underlying causes of

over the last year researchers funded by n.i.h. have made significant advances in understanding the onset of autism. they have learned that brain changes that contribute to autism occur even during pregnancy and continue through the first years of life. they have also concluded that some of the possible signs of autism may begin to appear within the first six months it can be identified. the work of the n.i.h. in understanding the problem cannot be understated. but far more needs to follow to better comprehend autism. congress also has responsibilities. one is providing resources to the national institutes of health and the center for disease control. and we need to do that. my friend, senator durbin, has introduced legislation that would focus on ways we can provide more help that's badly needed, with sequestration and the other cuts that have taken place, it is unfair to these two agencies. achieving a better life experience also known as the able act, would also improve the quality of life for individuals with autism and other di

areas of biomedical yet the republican budget, if you apply across-the-board cut, 27% for the amount of research at n.i.h. that was in the ryan-murray document. again not surprising they don't want the congressional budget office to look into detail at that. when the congressional budget office looked at the budget that just came out of the budget committee the other night, which will be on the floor next week. they said over the next couple years these fiscal policies below the e output levels comprow pro-jected. translation, it would reduce economic activity and reduce job growth over the next couple years. not surprising in the legislation before us pro-growth budgeting, our republican colleagues don't want the c.b.o. to tell us about the pro-growth benefits of those important investments. i reserve the balance of my ime. mr. price: my may i inquire to the time remaining? he chair: yes. the chair: the gentleman from georgia has 6 minutes. the gentleman from maryland has 1 1/1/4 minutes. mr. price: i yield two minutes to the gentleman from michigan. the chair: the gentleman from michigan is recognized

francis collins, now the head of the n.i.h., was headed up and how we're all 99.96% the same, and he mentioned the hutus and the tutsis and how they were so, so, so alike. but that -- the minor differences that were visible caused them to have this awful, awful, horrific genocide. it pained president clinton, and whip highway wrer mentioned that this is something he brought up -- and whip hoyer mentioned that this is something he brought up before, that it was a mistake not to intervene. it was right after the difficulty we had in moe gandhi -- in mogadishu, the helicopter, the way the american soldiers re killed and horrifically treated in the streets of mogadishu by the somalian people there and it was reticent to get involved in another situation in africa. it's a tight line to decide whether to go in or not. and the president made a mistake, he admits it. and we have to realize that the united states of america has a special place in the world, we're the only country that has the ability to see that mankind doesn't engage in horrific generalsides again. so when the opportunity fo

the republican budget reduces the number of new n.i.h. grants by 1,400, on top of the hundreds of projects n.i.h. has already had to turn down because of last year's reckless across the board d spending cuts. madam speaker, when you see a man paralyzed for years lift his legs, you can't help but share in the enthusiasm for breaking boundaries we once thought impossible. but if we approve this republican budget, if we approve these cuts, we extinguish that enthusiasm and the hopes of millions of families waiting for the next medical break through. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from connecticut seek recognition? the t objection, gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. courtney: thank you, madam speaker. madam speaker, the state of connecticut is bursting with husky pride this morning as the yukon men and the yukon women basketball teams did what was i think almost unmanageable, they both won a national championship. it would be great to stand here today and ta

mounted a campaign the likes we have not seen before so we discovered people living with the virus in 1981 and n.i.h. made massive investments in be h.i.v. research. . there are two kinds of people in the world, people who are researching aids now and people who will be researching in the future. they moved huge amounts of funding into this particular area. at h.i.v. we put money into the research. then we changed the laws so it would be easier to get the promising molecule into industry. then we changed the laws around food and drug administration to get molecules that are promising from industry through the f.d.a. more quickly, and then people set up a clinical trial, network the likes of which we have never seen. and in 15 years, from 1981 to 1996 we had a treatment that basically turned a one-time completely deadly, universally deadly disease into one that was a chronic condition. so i said, that's what i mean by a plan. that you got the basic science, industry, the clinical trials, whatever that would be in terms of sustainable energy, do you have that altogether? the answer i got was a resound

mounted a campaign the likes we have not seen before so we discovered people living with the virus in 1981 and n.i.h. made massive investments in be h.i.v. research. . there are two kinds of people in the world, people who are researching aids now and people who will be researching in the future. they moved huge amounts of funding in t

mounted a campaign the likes we have not seen before so we discovered people living with the virus in 1981 and n.i.h. made massive investments in be h.i.v. research. i remember harold saying, there are two types in this world. people researching hiv now and people who will be researching hiv in the future. moved huge amounts of funding into this particular area. we changed the laws so it would be easier to get the molecules into industry. then we changed the laws to get more molecules that are promising for industry more quickly. networks theet up likes of which we have never seen before and in 15 years we had a treatment that basically universally time deadly disease into one that was a chronic condition. mean by plan. you have the basic planning, the industry, the clinical trials, whatever that would be -- do you have that altogether? i got was aot resounding no. i kept saying, what's the plan? andprofessor came to see me i asked him the same thing. what's the plan? do $8 billion a year in energy funding. what do you want me to do? there was no plan. them, here's what i think happens. i think what

n.i.h. called amp program, it's a new undertaking. the ten largest pharmaceutical companies have put up $150 million, not a great amount of money for successful pharmaceutical companies, but an investment, to be matched by n.i.h., and they're setting out to use human genomic mapping and cell information to find cures for alzheimer's, type one diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis. can we afford this? can we afford this research? do you know what we paid last year in medicare and medicaid just for alzheimer's patients? $203 billion. one year. if we can through our research find a way to at least delay if not cure alzheimer's, think of the misery that will be spared these poor families that suffer from alzheimer's, and think of the money we will save. are we so shortsighted as a nation that we have forgotten that medical research not only finds cures, but saves us money that would otherwise be spent for medical care? that's why i introduced two weeks ago the american cures fund. it's different. there aren't a lot of proposals like it before con

i don't need any washington math to come and make the case that we need to spend more on n.i.h. than last year. i believe it. because my constituents elected me stand on up for federal research. we came here to make these tough decisions. back in the day before the class of 2010, before the class of 2012, back in the day there's good reason to assume that federal spending was going to go up every year. why? because every year since the end of the korean war that's exactly what had happened. i watched it. every year we spent more than we did in the last, but something has changed in this town, madam speaker. and i think the thing that's changed in this town are the people that the folks back home are sending to this town. i think the town's exactly the same. i think the folks back home are sending new folks. folks like the gentleman from california. folks like the gentleman from north carolina. sending people to town with the direction of not trading away their children's future because they were afraid to make tough decisions today. so what does that mean? that means in the four

the benefit is in interest savings alone. if you support n.i.h. as i do, with just the interest savings between our budget and the president's budget, we couldn't just double n.i.h. funding, we could triple it. not just this year, but every year. in the budget window. mr. chairman, on our current path by 2017 we are going to be spending more on interest on the national debt than we spend on the entire medicaid program to care for our children and our elderly. by 2020 we'll spend more on interest on the national debt under the president's proposal than we will on all national security concerns combined. there's not a family in america, mr. speaker, that believes they can borrow their way into prosperity. the interest that we pay on the debt that the president proposes that this nation borrows steals opportunities from our children. it is immoral to advance our generation today at the expense of generations tomorrow. does this budget make tough choices? it does. there's only one budget that we'll be considering today, mr. speaker, that takes step to

complaints about spending cuts or slower increases in spending aside, this budget, by the way, doesn't specify that n.i.his going to have all of that, all of these reductions in spending or reductions in the increase in spending will pale in comparison if we have a debt crisis, if we have a bond market -- if we have a shock. if we keep kicking the can down the road, the solution then will be so much uglier, so much more draconian -- mr. hoyer: will my friend on that point? mr. ryan: with that i yield to the gentleman from tennessee, dr. roe, two minutes. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. roe: i rise in strong support of the house republican budget. today our national debt exceeds $17.5 trillion. mr. chairman, that's a blueprint for decline. more than $55,000 for every man, woman and child in america. if we fail to address this mounting debt now, our children and our grandchildren will inherit an america that will be poorer, less free and provides fewer opportunities. to address this looming crisis, republicans propose balancing the federal budget in 10 years. most americans don'