As I say, the thing that impressed me when I became involved with the National Institutes of Health budgets was their size. I, like yourself and every other group which first looks at these programs, thought they were enormous until I began to examine individual components. As you know, probably, I have spent the last 15 or 20 years deeply involved in research and development, primarily related to military and atomic energy matters. I have seen research and development budget breakdowns of this kind through the years for aircraft or radar or atomic weapons. I am used to seeing items of $200 or $300 or $400 million for very critical hardware; such as, a missile or an aircraft, and even a total of $10 or $20 or $30 million for a vital vacuum tube area is not at all unusual. So when you find a sum of money much smaller than that for research of a critical component in the human body, you get a different perspective than when you see the total summed up a single item. I was so impressed with this fact, and with the wide range of things that they do, that I thought it was worth calling this particular perspective on the National Institutes of Health budget to your attention. While I don't want to try to defend the individual items, whether they are appropriate or too big or too small, I thought this view of it would be helpful to your group. Mr. ROGERS of Florida. Yes. Thank you, sir. Without objection, it will be included in the record along with your statement. (The information referred to follows:) National Cancer Institute, regular research projects and intramural research, by category, fiscal year 1963 Regular research project category: Cancer causation___ Tumor growth. Host-tumor relationship. Epidemiology Therapy-- In thousands $9,827 7, 469 2,436 990 15, 469 Basic research and all other including grants covering multiple fields. 11, 656 4,362 Review and approval.. 1,423 National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, regular research projects and intramural research, by category, fiscal year 1963 Regular research project category: Epilepsy and paroxysmal disorders_. Neuromuscular disorders___. In thousands $11, 536 2,282 2,387 2,700 2,230 2,825 231 1,499 7,623 3,682 1,022 1,273 5,223 759 1,225 915 47, 412 Total___ Intramural research category: Program management_. Medical neurology Surgical neurology. Ophthalmology-. Electroencephal_ Neuroanatomical scs. Neurophysiology- Biophysics-- Neurochemistry. Molecular biology. Neuropathology. General__. Board of Scientific Counselors.. Publications and reports--- Subtotal____. NIH management fund__ Total---- 136 283 569 368 101 331 177 173 292 154 57 183 2 170 2,996 3,720 6. 716 National Institute of Mental Health regular research projects and intramural National Institute of Mental Health regular research projects and intramural research, by category, fiscal year 1963-Continued 12 115 5, 769 4,321 10, 090 Neuropharmacological and clinical studies Information activities____ Allocation to President's Panel on Narcotic Addiction___. Subtotal.. NIH management fund_- Total---- National Heart Institute regular research projects and intramural research, by |