The budget proposes $49.8 billion in funding for NIH, including 21st Century Cures and ARPA-H.

I am hopeful that we will, once again, be able to come together and produce a bipartisan 2025 bill.

I am 100% supportive of that goal as studies show patients treated at NCI-Designated Cancer Centers have higher survival and recovery rates.

If you would do me a favor with your able staff here, if they would just check and find out if that's accurate, the amount of jobs that we know have been lost before or our statistics shows, and the amount of revenue it's caused to our…

Well, I think this law is very clear, basically, it says that the patient himself and the guardians have to have permission, and give you permission to do it.

Why don't we just educate a person that basically when they take the debt out, when they sign up for the Stafford Loan, that they think is free money, it is not free money.

We have no financial requirements whatsoever, literacy, when a student goes into the college.

They want to save lives. They don't want anyone to go through what they have gone through.

The NIH's policy of requiring grantees to submit a 'Plan for Enhancing Diverse Perspectives' or PEDP mandates that researchers prioritize spending their precious time and capital to check the diversity box.

What can NIH do to help expand the medical research footprint in rural states like West Virginia so we can tackle high disease burdens and low life expectancy?

This $40 million cut is based on false claims of the declining demand for the program...

Expensive new Federal programs, like free college, are ill-advised and unlikely to be considered.

Thank you, Madam Chairman. Thank you, Secretary, for being here.

The way the bills that we all passed in a bipartisan way, and even the IRA (Inflation Reduction Act) bill, the way it's being implemented is different than the way we wrote it.

What can NIH do to help expand the medical research footprint in rural states like West Virginia so we can tackle high disease burdens and low life expectancy?

The budget proposes $49.8 billion in funding for NIH, including 21st Century Cures and ARPA-H.

So we thought we crossed every hurdle, crossed every T and dotted every I; it is just time to implement it.

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