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Senate adds $2.1 billion to NIH budget
Thursday, March 13 the Senate passed an amendment (S. Amdt. 4203) to the Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 Congressional Budget Resolution (S. Con. Res. 70) which increased funding to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by an additional $2.1 billion. The vote was 95 yeas, 4 nays and 1 not voting
This addition, along with the $950 million already contained in the resolution would provide NIH with an increase of $3 billion or 10.3 percent over the FY 2008 appropriation.
A doubling of the NIH budget started with FY 1998 and ended with FY 2003. These prior investments in cancer research, education, prevention, awareness, treatment and control brought real progress against colon and rectal cancer.
In floor remarks Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the amendment's sponsor, noted that since the doubling took place "NIH has failed to keep pace with biomedical inflation and as a result has lost 15 percent of its purchasing power." He added:
"I, like millions of Americans, have benefited tremendously from the investment we have made in the National Institutes of Health and the amendment that we offer today will continue to carry forward the important research work of the world's premier medical research facility."
Cosponsors of the amendment were:
- Tom Harkin, Iowa
- Olympia J. Snowe, Maine
- Susan M. Collins, Maine
- Robert P. Casey, Jr., Pennsylvania
- Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts
- Elizabeth Dole, North Carolina
- Barbara A. Mikulski, Maryland
- Hillary Rodham Clinton, New York
- Carl Levin, Michigan
- John E. Sununu, New Hampshire
- Christopher J. Dodd, Connecticut
- Daniel K. Inouye, Hawaii
- Sherrod Brown, Ohio
- Robert Menendez, New Jersey
- Debbie Stabenow, Michigan
- Norm Coleman, Minnesota
- John F. Kerry, Massachusetts
- Richard Durbin, Illinois
- Ted Stevens, Alaska
- Gordon H. Smith, Oregon
- Jeff Bingaman, New Mexico
- Thad Cochran, Mississippi
- Benjamin L. Cardin, Maryland
- John D. Rockefeller, IV, West Virginia
- Barak Obama, Illinois
- Blanche L. Lincoln, Arkansas
- Frank R. Lautenberg, New Jersey
- Tim Johnson, South Dakota
- Orrin G. Hatch, Utah
- Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Delaware
Please take this time to contact your Senators and either thank them for voting for the amendment or express your disappointment if they voted against it.
Go here to see how your Senators voted.
Category: Research Funding