listen to what francis collins, director of the nih, had to say. >> that translates into hundreds of grants that would have been funded in this fiscal year that simply will not get paid. the way in which the sequester hits nih is that each one of our 27 institutes and centers has to take an equivalent cut of 5.1%. so that means this will hit cancer, it will hit heart disease. it will hit diabetes. it will hit hiv/aids. it will hit alzheimer's. it will hit all of those areas. >> that is just about all of medicine. and joining me to talk more about this are two cnn experts, and all things beltway and economics. jake tapper and ali velshi. thanks for joining us. you know, you hear francis colin talk. obviously, it's very concerning. ali, let me start with you. what happened to cause this? >> yeah, for once i'm going to use a colloquialism that actually fits. this is a poison pill. the sequester, forced budget cuts were something the government imposed upon itself to say if you don't take action to deal with the deficits and the debt, the consequence is going to be something so bitter tha

when you are the nih, you have two major sources. your largest source is the grants you get for research. some of those have been held back. that is very bad. very bad. dr. collins was explained to me the percentage of worthwhile grants, promising france and that are now accepted. it is that a modern time low. i believe somewhere around 17%. that means that, as dr. collins explains, he has to try to figure out who are the really great great opportunities verses the great opportunities and it is hard to draw that line. we're going to lose a lot of potential researchers. but it also can affect the work force. if you are a federal agency, 98% senator money is in salary, then your only opportunity to reach the target cost by sequestration is to deal with the work force. you can look at turnover but there's not a lot of turnover. that is when you start looking at these horrible things called furloughs without pay. they're horrible. and in fact, it affects not only the morale of the work force but the services we are providing to the people

and 18 seconds i have left, let me ask, i guess i would focus on nih, so perhaps you, mr. werfel. the impact of sequestration on nih. i believe that medical resources significant important, help save lives and reduce the cost of health care. one of the things i think would be significant discretion at nih for how it handles sequestration in the sense that much of the money goes there and is provided in grants elsewhere, the question i want to zero in on is, will that money be used internally for research projects at nih? if there's a reduction in spending will be reduction come in an equal fashion, or how will they be divided between research done at nih or the 80 plus% of the research that's done across the country i universities and research facilities? >> senator, i'm not sur sure the exact bounds but i will say it's my understanding that mh as result of the sequester will have to issue hundreds of fewer awards that will have spiral impact that will delay were, jeopardizing thousands of jobs, placing prior-year investments at risk, and ultimately, the bottom line is setting up work

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the nih supports 18,000 jobs in maryland. >>> the pentagon is also sounding an alarm about sequestration. it's telling congress that hundreds of thousands of federal employees could face furloughs if no deal is reached. here is more from capitol hill. >> reporter: the fight over $1.2 trillion in across the board spending cuts set to begin march 11 is it is raging on. today it's the pentagon's turn to warn congress. more than 7,000 employees would take a pay cut. yesterday president obama blamed republicans for holding up a deal. the president said they could lose their jobs. >> these cuts are not smart, they are not fair, they will hurt our economy. >> reporter: president obama wants to reduce the cuts with new revenue. house speaker john boehner says the debate is closed. >> republicans are not comfortable with the cuts but they want to see spending cuts implemented. >> reporter: lawmakers on home at recess are feeling the pinch. >> the american people expect us to get serious about this and we're serious about deficit reduction. >> reporter: a new deficit reduction plan bier have got t

the nih headquarters is akin to the district of chris van hollen, he would be our guest on this week's news makers to talk about the federal budget and the sequestered. sunday at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span and act c-span.org. -- and at c-span.org. >> and he sent them in, gets the money and they publish only six. he summons the editor and says i wrote ten and you published only six. most of the editors say in response, but we paid you. because the standard answer includes beebe the columns were not good enough. here's a check for the columns he did not print. then why would he give back the money if the contract said $20,000? he was entitled to keep it. that was his business lesson. because he wanted to do business with the other party again. he wanted to be a good citizen. very rare behavior now. i admired that. she traces the life of the 30th president of the united states son and i at 8:00 on key and a -- on q &a. from this week's washington journal, this is 35 minutes. host: abdul mujeeb khalvatgar is the executive director of the nai media institute in afghanistan.

you know, we won't recognize the fact that the nih is going to cut out grants for new scientists forheoretically. it may not be something that we're ever going to be aware of unless it's something that directly impacts you. i think it will be difficult. but over time this will impact the economy. the president at the very least is doing a good job pointing to the republicans and saying it's their fault. the real question is does the american public really absorb what it is that they're blaming the republicans. >> john: and does the the american public even care? the fatigue is so huge, people are just so over it. that makes me wonder did obama over play his hand on this? did he think yet again lucy is not going to pull the football away? >> i don't know if he over played his hand or played iter poorly. you have the republicans playing games with the credit rating in january. now they're playing games with our economy, which is fragile and barely into a recovery and it's not much of a recovery for the unemployed and under employed. now we'll face a government shutdown next month. why

. >>> we'll report the major impact for patients at nih if sequestration takes effect. >>> plus a proposal to make the district more environmentally friendly. but it would cost you more money. good evening. i'm doreen gentzler. >> and i'm jim vance. >>> police in prince george's county have arrested five men today for the murder of 15-year-old charles walker. he was shot and killed on monday afternoon, because the people after him wanted the shoes he was carrying in his bag. also today a second teenager shot in forestville last night has died. that makes seven teenagers killed in recent months. bureau chief tracee wilkins joins us from the headquarters with the interview of the mother of one of the murder victims. tracee? >> reporter: jim, this has been a hard week for the people who live here in prince george's county. three teens killed in this week alone, and now prince george's county police just announced one of these teen murder cases is now closed. swell so with a mother who is hoping that her son's case will be next. >> he was a good kid. he wouldn't hurt a soul. >> reporter: teres

the state's vibrant biotech industry. maryland senator barbara mikulski toured an nih lab wednesday learning what the $1.5 billion in cuts for nih would really mean. >> well, first, it would be an impact on 15,000 marylanders who work either at nih or benefit from the research funding at other maryland institutions. >> reporter: while the potential impact is massive, this is politics as usual and do not expect it to change. >> coming down the road again. this is too good of an opportunity to wait to bash the other party. >> reporter: both the house and senate are in recess this week w. nine days to go before $85 billion in automatic federal spending cuts begins, there is a call to reconvene the house immediately and find a way to avoid those cuts. in the newsroom, laura evans, fox 5 news. >>> we knew it was going to be cold. >> and wasn't it? >> yeah. >> i was surprised when i looked at the winds gusting. they were at 30, which is substantial and i thought more than that. it was blowing out there. today and some snow from time to time. and temperature the are dropping out. there the wind is stillboroing -- blowing and it

that, if it helps our society as a whole recognize the deep connections by the sciences, funded by the nihfor so long now, the breakthrough drugs that the pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies found, there's such a deep connection. >> what's next? what's the next dinner table topic, the thing that you guys think you can tackle, and who are you going to help out next? what are you going to be the chairman of next, i suppose. i'm just going to start calling you the chairman. >> isn't this enough for one day? >> i'm talking about tomorrow. what's on the docket for tomorrow? >> we'll talk about that form. >> and you'll come on cnbc and talk about it tomorrow. i'm game. >> not looking ahead to the next one. >> i'm tired. >> all right, guys. thank you very much. >> back to you. >> all right, jon. thanks to boast them as well. good job. we're going to head towards the closing countdown as we continue to set lows for the day. the dow down 111 points right now, mandy. >> we're continuing and got seven minutes left until we ring the closing bell. jamie dimon getting roughed up. new york city co

it would mean furloughs of air traffic controllers, cuts in funding from the nih for breast cancer, form, for alzheimer's. it would mean food and safety inspectors would be furloughed. so, this position of speaker boehner doesn't make any sense. we should sit down at the table, pass some more tough decisions. we're adults. we were elected to make tough decisions. and not just walk away and throw your hands up. and i hope that the president of the united states makes this point. we have got to look to the future. we've got to create jobs. growing the economy is the most important challenge for all of us. and if we make these kind of random cuts, sequesters across the board, it would be a disaster. >> we know there are a lot of reports that the president is going to give a strong speech tonight, that he believes he has the political wind at his back. on the other hand, earlier today, your colleague, kevin mccarthy, had this to say about the president. >> the number one priority anybody elected should do a budget. you know, if the senate doesn't pass a budget, they won't be paid. same thin

what has -- a the nih has done in these grants and a 5% cut is going to be devastating to them. >> christ couldn't you do $85 in cuts that wouldn't be devastating. >> but it is mandated in law and the white house has said you -- >> chris: that is the point of the house republicans. they are saying make smart cuts, not stupid cuts. >> the point i was trying to make before. most republicans in the house including the speaker voted for this. >> republicans are now for the sequester because they have no trust in the president's willingness to cut spending at all. he had 18 months to lead us and he hasn't. the fact of the matter is that we have tools to avoid the kind of thing we are talking about if congress will sit down and the perhaps ar republican repue willing to grant the democratic president the flexibility to make the cuts in the way he determines and he desires. >> there is movement behind the scenes on this. i think some of the democrats have gone to the white house and said now wait a minute, can we delay this sequester for one year and that makes sense. granted it is another kick

nih. >> they gave me medicines and treatments insurance wouldn't cover, the hospitals back at home couldn't give me. >> reporter: dr. at nih fear if funding is cut in such a dramatic fashion, patients like sanchez would have to go without treatment. >> it's scary. what it's going to mean is we're going to have to slow our studies down, which means we won't bring in as many new patients, and it means the pace at which the new discoveries happen is going to become slower and slower. >> for decades, the nation and the world has looked to nih to lead the way in life-saving medical research. >> the first use use of chemotherapy for cancer happened here. the cracking of the genetic code happened here. figuring out how to make the blood supply safe from hepatitis and hiv which we all take for granded happened here. >> reporter: it could mean layoffs at nih. >> we will do everything we can to try not to furlough or lay off employees, but of course we can't make any promises. >> reporter: as for sanchez, she's looking forward to going home, but she knows how important funding is no nih. >> i don't k

collins of the impact of sequester on nih, and your staff is more than welcome to accompany me on that visit so that they can receive the firsthand briefing that i will receive. >> [inaudible] >> as will, of course, senator hard kip's saf. -- harkin's staff. as you know, in his new role, senator pryor? >> thank you, madam chairwoman. let me just follow up on one of senator blunt's points he made about the department of agriculture, if i may. you know, the law on meat inspectors says that the inspectors -- that the plants can't operate unless the inspectors are there. so closing these plants for 15 days could result in reduction of sol volume of 200 pounds of meat, 2.3 billion pounds of poultry and more than 200 billion pounds of egg products. so this is going to adversely effect every consumer in america, it's going to be very disruptive to our food supply and the chain that we have here in this country, and it's basically the bottom line is it's just bad for the economy. also something i think senator blunt did not cover but i would like to, there's going to be over 100,000 very low i

the nih ward is still struggling. they had 15,000 people in it before the storm, they have 2500 people now. the city on the other hand as a whole is, as a u.s. census bureau noted briefly, that we're growing faster than any other city in america. now forbes is says we're one of the best places to do business. and there's a lot of great stuff going on. but it going to take us time to rebuild the entire city. will you have the same exact experience in the northeast as you try to rebuild the rockaways and will you see some neighborhoods that come back faster than others and frustrations with fema getting money to the ground. the essential component is for people not to build it back like it was. to really think about what it should have always been. so for example, in concrete terms, if a school building got destroyed, instead of putting that building back and painting it like it was, build a new 21st century school. build a sustainable school, build a school system that is going to teach to knowledge-based economy. that

and this stuff is sitting there unused because the nih doesn't have the money to give him. >> it's notelihoods. it's lives. you have to write your congress people and try to stop sequestration. >>> we talked about the washington redskins, the controversy over their name. they've been criticized. they are now responding during the last couple days on their web site, there's been dialogue about this. there's been give and take. and criticism. they've responded as well . larry michael the voice of the redskins does a show somewhere comcast redskins channel whatever it is, redskins.com. and they've been talking about it. have you seen some of this? >> i've seen the discussion of the push back, basically against people like me who have called on them to change the name. >> and one of the things they seem to be doing. there's dozens of high schools that still use the name redskins. is that a good defense? >> it's certainly a defense. there are two sides to this argument. no one ever said otherwise. there are some high schools including i believe at least a few in native american communities

[laughter] >> institutions like darpa, the nih, have created an immense amount of innovation in this country and jobs. the notion that says government can never play it will, be a catalyst for innovation and change, would be to disprove what has already tested for generations. i woud leave that as an foundational point. the amount of regulation has grown and grown. no country in the world follows us anymore. nobody looks at the u.s. and says that as such it best practice, i will pick that up right away. i leave that as two goal posts. it would be a repetition of what already exists. it is the best in the world, bar none. that is the heart and soul of the u.s. the government to play a role. on the other side, we still do too many things that are not necessarily conducive to competitiveness. >> what is an example of regulation the obama administration has promulgated that you think is a ridiculous strike on growth? >> if you think about the fact it takes 12 years to get a power line permitted across state lines, i could give the dozens. every permit should be approved in less than 24 mo

. >> i am glad you said that, because the other example given nih, i think, there nine-year rearch program in place that because of .s thehey will have e to stop >> i understand scientific doingarch, but some guy -- do an economic on the price of wheat can n be spared. what you are talking about mark warner, you are talking about an for governmnment painting the draconian pipicture. what it basically comes down the sequesr was to be so created ridiculous because the cuts are they do not have as as they need to sensee to say it makes to cut from this program where ,t has too many people already .ather than this other program >> peter, let's get back to jill 's original point. .he submararines thais a problem. . do not deny that is a problem , all businesses need to know what happened. another waste in virginia. >> mark warner's hope is they expandn agreement for a year is a short-term fix, is goinere business at way washington is .andling things >> i am not omoting one side or another, but the democrats t to the end of the .ear forhat reason the short-term fix worst case umping it you keep

[laughter] the history of the world as we know it so far is that institutions like darpa and the nih created an immense amount of innovation and jobs and spawned entire industries. the notion that says that government can never play a role, can never be a catalyst for innovation and change would be to disprove what has existed for a generation. i would leave that as a foundational point. in the last 20 years, the amount of regulation has grown and grown and grown. i am a business guy. i am supposed to complain about regulation. no country in the world follows us anymore. no one looks at the usa and says, that is a great practice. it would be a refutation of what exists to say that darpa has not had an immense impact on the industrial sector of the united states. the entrepreneurial is the best in the world bar none. the government can play a catalytic role. we do too much that is not conducive to competitiveness and a growing business. >> what is an example of a regulation that the obama administration has promulgated that is a ridiculous drag on growth? >> think about cycle times of

president's building off the human genome project, the effort in the past to double the funding of the nihe returns. and so on this one even in this time where spending cuts are important for our nation, we do have to do some discretionary spending. this is a good investment, because the return on that investment not only for society, but for our nation will be incredible. jenna: so we'll continue this conversation, i'm sure, at a later date. some people believe public/private partnership is the way to go, and we'll talk more about it. dr. charles, great to have you with us today. thank you for the time. >> thank you, jenna. jon: all right. so four babies born to the same mom within minutes of each other, but doctors are not calling them quadruplets. the answer to this baby brain teaser next. >> well, a very special delivery for one mom in texas because she gave birth to four baby boys minutes apart. doctors say they are not

he lived as the surgeon general downtown and high lived on the n heh -- nih campus and i would be in my office and he will say tell me about the disease out there. i think i can have an impact and he did that continually. he would stop in on the way to his house, which is literally 100 feet from the building that i was in. >> convenient. >> yeah. >> and the reagan administration didn't like it at the time but dr. coop said it must start at the lowest grade possibles, and that is part of any health or hygiene program and became a hero. >> he was and everyone thought he would be conservative because of the fact that he was the twod to the sanctity of life, as a pediatric surgeon and, as it turned out, he was the most open minded person who led the -- let the public health determine his direction and recommending as and not any mr. itical ideology. people thought it was going to be the other way around and surprised a lot of people. >> and how was a hero to a lot of people. dr. coop himself once said, and this is a quote. i don't have any line authority or power. i don't have any budget

lab wednesday, learning what the $1.5 billion in cuts just for nih wouldlly mean. >> well first, it would be an impact on 15,000 marylanders, who work either at n.i.h. or who benefit from the research funding at other maryland institutions. >> while the potential impact is massive, this is politics as usual, and don't expect it to change. >> you'll kick the can down the road again. >> this is too good of an opportunity to waste, to bash the other party. >> the house and senate are in recess this week, but with nine days to go before $85 billion in automatic federal spending cuts begins, there is a call to reconvene the house immediately and find a way to avoid those cuts. in the newsroom, laura evans, fox 5 news. >> tonight, we are investigating a growing epidemic among america's youth. 12 and 13-year-old kids swapping prescription drugs at farm parties. coming up next, an addict tells us how common this deadly game is and what is being done to prevent it. [ male announcer ] so there's lots of people out there who aren't happy with their internet. [ spokes

it would require the nih to make 100 your research awards. ally, in addition to research, as wes and peter have already mentioned, the sequestered would hurt students and financially. it would cut a work study and other financial aid programs. why would we penalize young americans working their way through college? what kind of message does that send? it is not a message of opportunity. so the sequestered, instead, a stupid to it is shortsighted, and it should not happen. we urge the president and the congress to stop the sequestered and address our fiscal challenges in a balanced, sensible way. thank you. >> thank you so much, peter and hundred. now i'd like to open it up for questions from the audience. if you could please state your name and affiliation. i believe we have a microphone. we are being recorded, so it would be helpful if you could speak into the microphone. and let's begin. >> hello. paul, roll call group. mr. rawlings said that he favors a balanced package including revenues. i'm going to give you all agree with that, or some

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from your work that you have done on the topic, do you think that the cd c and the nih is going to findking to sort of help with this crisis? >> i do. buzz there has been a moratorium, there is a lot we don't know about gun violence and how guns are affecting people in our society. so i think there is always room for this kind of research to illuminate. another piece of the gun package was to try to get people in schools or people having a lot of contact with young adults to be better able to identify the early signs of psychiatric illness and try to direct those people towards treatment. that seems like a fruitful policy, also because a lot tend to be people at the beginning of illness before they have been identified and sought treatment. if you can catch the signs early, get someone into some kind of mental health treatment right away, you can make a huge reduction in the risk that that person may go on to harm someone else. >> that's what this is about. when you think about curtailing gun violence, we have to work on risk reduction. i don't think we will get a full-out ban on guns b

the woods, the support led by the speaker of the house from my state, speaker gingrich, to double the nih budget -- i want to show you what my constituents also see in their tough times, because it is -- because it is not just the clerk at the da -- the va who hasn't gotten a raise. i talked to a clerk in my furniture store, a single mom, she had not gone a raise in two years. she makes $11 an hour. average, median federal wage, 74 -- $74 an hour. this is a cdo chart that compares the work of folks with high school degrees, with a little bit of college, with a college degree, in the private sector, without the public sector. i say to the gentleman, in no way to want to minimize the tremendous responsibility placed on our federal civilian workers. i have chosen a career of public service, as have they, and i am -- and i admire them for it. i know they do it with great sacrifice to themselves and their families. in this tough time, until we can get our handle on the debt and deficit, my constituents continue to look at how their tax dollars a. -- dollars appeared to be paying federal employ

the use an nih grant awards system. i think there is good supervision. from the perspective of the schools, often they feel it is too tight. it is hard to move when things are highly stipulated. the national service corps is a relationship with the individuals. happily, over the years, it used to be that many individuals simply did not serve. that has been coupled with the help of federal legislation. and that is managed quite tightly. i think in this area in general, there is pretty good accountability across programs. no doubt room for improvement, but in general, it is pretty good. >> thank you. my time is expired. i have more detailed written questions. senator warren? >> i would like to follow up with some questions about community health centers. as vehicles for delivering primary health care, and their impact on access, on costs, and on disparity. i was very interested -- i read through all of the testimony. i was very impressed by the work you have done. it is terrific work. i was glad to hear about the work that is done out in wyoming. you have c

just go to nihseniorhealth.gov and get the best medical information available anywhere. nih seniorhealth.gov. built with you in mind. >> being healthy is pretty easy -- if you have the right information. and that's what we're about to give you in "health bites." >> we all know that strategy plays a big role in sports. but as nutritionist jax hubbard tells us, that strategy should include what you eat. >> and not just what you eat, but when, because it's important to have the right nutrients at the right time. >> okay. what do you suggest, coach? >> before heavy physical activity, like a game or exercising, go for protein and carbs. you can get these from half a turkey sandwich or apple slices with peanut butter. it's one of my personal favorites. it's also important to stay hydrated, so drink water before, during, and after the workout. and at halftime, maybe have an orange or grapes. afterwards, refuel and re-energize with more protein and carbs. try having a snack, like crackers and cheese or yogurt with berries. notice i didn't mention cupcakes. any food or drink with ext

department of education, the nih and the gates foundation among many others. his current research involves evaluating the tax credit scholarship program, the largest school voucher program in the united states. conducting a large-scale study of school accountability in florida and following children from birth through school career to study keep questions regarding early childhood poverty analysts inequality. prior to joining the faculty at northwestern in 2008, david figlio taught at the university of florida from 1998-2008, and the university of oregon from 1995-1998. help me welcome david, please. [applause] >> thank you all for coming out tonight. it is a real pleasure to be year of the university of florida. as gail mentioned, i spent 10 years on the faculty here and still am always thinking about reasons to come back here. it is fabulous to look out of the audience tonight and see not only colleagues from the university but friends from the community who i grew to know and love over the years. so, it is especially wonderful to be back here in gainesville

the liquid crystal display or lcd monitor used on the sons comes from research funded by nih at the national institute for health. the rechargeable lithium-ion battery that run these funds came out of basic research funded by the department of energy and even the integrated circuit, which you find in practically all electronic equipment benefited from federally funded research as well as some great skill by industry. so this device that we all can't get along what came to a great extent from federally funded research. these things can't keep coming if we don't invest in basic research. that is why it has strong bipartisan support in congress and why president obama is such a strong advocate for it. but the reality of the federal budget is discretionary spending from which we fund this research is getting squeezed tighter and tighter and now the sequester cuts nondefense discretionary spending by 5% this year alone, which is really 9% given where we are in the year. the omb said this would force the national science foundation to issue nearly 1000 fewer research grants, curtailing the work of

if you're thinking about long-term economic growth, these are the areas, nih research, pre-k, elementaryngs over the long term that generally have made us -- and we're actually because of these deficit hysteria, we've decided we need to hit the things that we should be most concerned about in order to achieve these things. >> but that's the nature of sequestration. let's be really clear. i don't think anybody here is defending sequestration. the across the board nature particularly of the cuts. that's where you start getting this sort of it's going to have this effect on teachers. but if you could target it, and i've talked to people, for instance, in the pentagon. they're like give us a target, we'll hit it. give us some flexibility. and that will actually be able -- it is the nature of this mindless across-the-board cuts where every agency gets the same amount, 8 to 12% which is ridiculous. >> the reason why we have sequestration is because republicans won't raise revenue. everyone agrees on this issue. >> it's not only that, it's because we're fighting wars and bloating the pentagon b

this is one of the crown jewels of american science. what nihdone, and a 5% cut will be devastating to them. >> chris: but couldn't you do $85 billion in cuts, that wouldn't be devastating? >> no. >> chris: with a trillion dollar government? [all talking at once]. >> it is mandated in law and the white house has said -- >> that's the point of the house republicans, they are saying, make smart cuts, not stupid cuts. >> go back to the comment before, republicans in the house, most republicans in the house including the speaker voted for this. >> but, look, here's the deal. republicans now are for the sequester because they have no trust, no confidence in the president's willingness to cut spending at all and he had 18 months to lead us and he hasn't. the fact of the matter is, is that we had tools to avoid the kind of thing we're talking about if congress will sit down and the republicans are willing to grant the democrat president the flexibility to make these cuts in a manner he determines and he -- [all talking at once]. >> there is movement be

there will be furloughs potentially at the national cancer institute, at nih. this thing has ramifications for defense and non-defense. >> reporter: the cuts were originally scheduled to kick in january 1st because congress couldn't grow on a broad package to reduce the deficit several times in 2011 and 2012 in excomping for republicans agreeing to raise the debt ceiling and they were pushed off again during the year-end fiscal cliff negotiations. why another short-term deal? the president seems to believe that wear just going to buy a little bit more time that maybe congress with finally come to some resolution on a larger package. but for their part, republicans are saying perhaps maybe now it is time to pay the piper. back to you. >> thank you. >>> in our top stories, a partial win for virginia governor bob mcdonnell's plan to overhaul the state transportation funding. yesterday, the senate deadlocked on a deal while the house approved a $3.1 billion transportation proposal. at the center of the bill getting rid of the 17-cent gas tax and replacing it with an

we get a large trial at colombia university sponsored by the nih. anting as with which we can have depressed people in the trial. we had to cancel the trial but we couldn't find a single smoker who was not clinically depressed. the fundamental insight yet again is what to do to help these folks? i would argue that you take a couple different paths. one is show them what's happening. this is what a smoker's lung looks like. you can't hide from the. just look at the darn thing. at 11:00 you see that? as emphysema. the dark tar deposits is pretty evident as well from the cigarettes. and when you see that you have awareness and understanding why this matters to you. but the second insight you have, we offer is there certain times you can change people's minds. as a heart surgeon i don't have a lot of control of people who come in for surgery. i've done my work and they're on their way. so i long ago pledged i would ever operate on smokers. and i don't. and i don't say that because i dislike smokers but i say because i care about them. because what i tell