Thank you to our guests for coming here today. My question is for Mr. Corbett.
I got to know you over the last couple of years, and I have to commend your passion for making it a better and more vibrant scientific community in this country. I sense your frustration here a bit today, especially about the neglect and the lack of priority that this government is giving to the scientific community. You also give some examples on how that can be straightened away.
In an earlier question, you alluded to how other countries deal with their scientific community. Time and time again, we read about some of the European countries, such as Ireland and Germany, and even Australia and Japan, but also right now even the emerging economies in Asia--how they seem to be taking off as scientific-based economies. What could we be learning from these other countries on how their governments are treating their scientific communities, so they don't pass us by and leave us so far behind that we're going to hit the wall and never catch up?