On the recordFebruary 10, 2015
Let me just pick up this chart. You mentioned research in your opening remarks, and then again. Your leadership on this has been absolutely extraordinary--the bills that you have introduced and the encouragement you have given to others to introduce legislation and push it forward. I think this is where we are going to spend our time--fighting for research. I am going to go through this. Ms. Waters, I know you must leave. Thank you so very much for joining us. This poster shows how we are spending our National Institutes of Health research dollars. We can be thankful for each piece of this research that is going on. First, on the cancer research ongoing with considerable success--and I will come back and show an earlier poster that I had--we are spending $5.418 billion. This is in fiscal year 2014--$5.418 billion. What does that result in? Well, over the years, between 2000 and 2010, we have seen breast cancer deaths decline by 2 percent, prostate cancer decline by 8 percent. That is what research will do. It is successful. With HIV/AIDS, just under $3 billion spent annually in 2014, and again we are seeing HIV/AIDS an incredible success story. Still with us, but nonetheless, we have seen death from HIV/AIDS decline by 42 percent as we have invested $3 billion over the years; in 2014, $3 billion, and a little less in the previous years.…
