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Tom Harkin: “I agree that COPD is an important health threat facing the American public. In part that is why Senator Specter and I…”

On the recordOctober 22, 2007
I agree that COPD is an important health threat facing the American public. In part that is why Senator Specter and I have fought hard to increase funding for the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to address COPD and other pressing public health issues. Since 2003, the year after the NIH doubling was complete, funding into research on COPD has continued to increase by $13 million at the National Institutes of Health. The bill before us, our Senate Labor-HHS bill includes a $4.4 million increase for the CDC to work with at least seven additional States in fiscal year 2008 on preventing heart disease and stroke. I am very proud of these increases and I thank my colleague Senator Specter for helping to make them possible.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa
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Discussing funding increases for health research and prevention related to COPD and heart disease.

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