# Class: DY, Lambda: 0.5 # __START__ mr. chairman , as someone who for the past 2 years has represented over 40 , 000 soldiers at fort hood , texas , who have fought for our country in iraq , i am deeply appreciative of the expeditious manner in which the gentleman from california ( chairman pombo ) and the gentleman from delaware ( mr. castle ) and the gentlewoman from colorado ( ms. degette ) and many of the rest of us , have thought we should increase spending on , medical research all across the board in all kinds of medical research . yes , in order to make room for the president's tax cuts that have gone overwhelmingly to the wealthiest in our country , we have simply cut medical research and not done what we should as a nation do overall in medical research . so when i hear my friends talk on this , i do not quite get how this will expand medical research while closing out one whole avenue of medical research and , at the same time , cutting spending on what we should be doing to move our country ahead . __END__