Pete Domenici: “I want to thank Senator Frist for his continued efforts in this critical policy area. The Chairman's mark of the budget…”

“I want to thank Senator Frist for his continued efforts in this critical policy area. The Chairman's mark of the budget resolution did assume a reduction in funding for the Agency for Health Care Policy Research [AHCPR]. Funding for AHCPR was assumed to be reduced to $46 million per year, beginning in 1997. Since then, I have worked with Senator Frist to find alternate assumptions to meet our discretionary spending targets within function 550. The resolution now assumes that funding for AHCPR will not be reduced.”