DEPARTMENTS

OF LABOR, HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES, EDUCATION AND RELATED
AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1984

TESTIMONY OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND
INTERESTED INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS

TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1983.

NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE

WITNESSES

HON. CLARENCE D. LONG, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE
STATE OF MARYLAND

WALTER STARK, M.D., JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, REPRESENTING RE-
SEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS

Mr. NATCHER. The meeting will be in order.

Our first witness is our friend and colleague in the House of Rep-
resentatives, Clarence D. Long of Maryland, one of the able mem-
bers of the House.

Mr. Long, it is a pleasure to have you before our committee. Tell
us who you have with you at the table.

Mr. LONG. Thank you very much, Mr. Natcher. It is a delight to
be here with you.

Thank you for permitting me to introduce your first witness, Dr.
Walter Stark. Dr. Stark is eminently qualified in the field of eye
research. He is a professor of ophthalmology at the Johns Hopkins
University, School of Medicine and director of the Corneal Service.

He is also Chairman of the Food and Drug Administration's Oph-
thalmic Device Panel, Chairman of the National Eye Institute
Panel on Cataract as well as consultant to that panel on corneal
disease.

He was part of a surgical team which flew to Moscow to operate
on a Soviet leader. He is here to impress upon the subcommittee
the need for increasing the fiscal year 1984 budget for the National
Institute. I hope the committee would give Dr. Stark's request
most sympathetic consideration.

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COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

JAMIE L. WHITTEN, Mississippi, Chairman

KEITH F. MAINLAND, Clerk and Staff Director