In February the House passed an appropriations bill for fiscal year 2011 that proposed cutting the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) budget by $1.6 billion or 5 percent compared to NIH's fiscal year 2010 budget.
Durbin discusses proposed budget cuts to NIH funding and its potential impact.
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