Biomedical research may be headed for a big boost of 2 years in the bill, even more than some expected stimulus lobbyists. During the debate last night, the Senate accepted by voice vote of an amendment by Republican Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania that would add an additional $ 6.5 to 3.5 billion $ already proposed in the draft Senate Bill to the National Institutes of Health. The House and Senate had planned to give NIH $ 3.5 billion.
The House version would direct $ 1.5 billion of the total by NIH National Center for Research Resources for facilities and extramural equipment, while the Senate plan initial set just 300 $ million search. (Both offer $ 500 million to renovate the NIH campus facilities and the rest for extramural research.) With the amendment last night, the Senate bill would give a total of $ 10 billion for NIH of which $ 9.2 billion would go to extramural research. It passed with little debate. That many remain in the final bill is an enigma. In the past, large increases for NIH proposed Senate have reached a compromise difference division between the House and the Senate. Lobbyist Jennifer Zeitzer of Experimental Biology Federation of American Societies said it "will be difficult to keep [the Senate’s] figure" in conference with the House.
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