A Senate spending panel equaled the request of President Barack Obama to the National Institutes of Health funding in 2010, a coup inch $ 442 million to $ 31.8 billion. This slight bump of 1.4% is less than half of the increase in the House of Representatives approved last week. After the full committee and the Senate approved the bill, it will be reconciled with the House version.
As President, work credits, Health and Human Services subcommittee Senate, led by Tom Harkin (D-IA), said that the NIH does not need more money because the recovery Act, it gave $ 10 billion to spend until 2010. Bill "was greatly influenced" by the financing of the Act, a declaration of the said committee. But the draft law does not include the president's request for big boosts to cancer and autism research, according to Jennifer Zeitzer, director of legislative relations for the Federation of American societies for experimental biology. FASEB is "satisfied" because the allocations specific disease are contrary to the fortuitous nature of scientific discovery, she said. FASEB hope a total higher number for the NIH in the conference with the House.
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