so much from the pleasant -- plus entries, governor pete degette [laughter] to have an nih budget of $442 million as a sharp pretreat from what the chairman used to insist on 3.5 billion a year increases. senator harkin wouldn't settle for anything less for most of the decade. i guess it isn't entirely true. occasionally he settled for 3 billion. but if you take a look at the cost of living in just meant inflation rate about 3.3%, thatn i would urge you to take another look. we want to stay within our budget. i would appreciate it if you took another look at that. the $10 billion that was added in the stimulus package brought an enormous wave of excitement. scientists. and i think we have to maintain the growth rate. we talked about cutting down the cost health care. what better way of the cost factor than to prevent government and during the purple of time when senator harkin had his way increasing from 12 to $30 billion on the death rate -- >> we imminent, i was a ranking member then. i was ranking member of that time. >> come to think of that he didn't have all that much to do wit