It would mean a cut of over $10 billion in fiscal year 2024 alone for life-saving medical research at NIH.

Fortunately, here in the Senate, Ranking Member Capito and I are focused on writing a bipartisan Labor/HHS spending bill to move our country forward.

It is outrageous that NIH is complicit in this case of pass the harasser and I want to know what you're doing to hold the researcher and institutions accountable and how you will prevent incidents like this from happening again in the…

We cannot afford to have NIH's potential limited or even worse have its legs cut out from under it.

Finally, before I turn it over to Senator Capito, I want to mention an article published last week in Science revealing NIH's failure to discipline an investigator with a known documented history of sexual harassment.

Thank you for what you do and how you have devoted your careers.

What they have proposed would require deep cuts to the NIH and would lock in those cuts over the next decade.

I just want to comment also that when we look at this oversight, we want to make sure that we don't prompt scientists to move their experiments to countries where there are less stringent requirements.

We cannot afford to have NIH's potential limited or even worse have its legs cut out from under it.

I look forward to working with my colleagues to ensure NIH has the resources it needs across its 27 institutes and centers to continue the progress of recent years.

What they have proposed would require deep cuts to the NIH and would lock in those cuts over the next decade.

I just want to comment also that when we look at this oversight, we want to make sure that we don't prompt scientists to move their experiments to countries where there are less stringent requirements.

So this will end our hearing today. I want to thank all of our committee members who attended for their thoughtful questions.

Cutting spending as they have proposed would mean slashing approximately 22 percent from programs next year.

Fortunately, here in the Senate, Ranking Member Capito and I are focused on writing a bipartisan Labor/HHS spending bill to move our country forward.

the juxtaposition of an act taken by the House Republicans last week that would result in drastic cuts to our public health programs and our research initiatives, and cuts that would undermine our Nation's competitiveness, as well as our…

So this will end our hearing today. I want to thank all of our committee members who attended for their thoughtful questions.

What they have proposed would require deep cuts to the NIH and would lock in those cuts over the next decade.