Dick Durbin: “I will join in supporting Senator Curtis’ request of the Senate Judiciary Committee.”

For years, this investment in research at NIH has been worthwhile. This proposal to transfer one third of the agency’s [NIAID] budget on infectious diseases is a mistake.

President Trump has a chance to secure the release of these detainees who have already suffered so much, and I hope he will similarly make this request of Xi during his visit.

The meeting between the leaders of our two countries is important and timely. Both nations have a great deal to discuss, including areas of shared concern and disagreement.

Let’s be honest about what this is: a move to siphon funds away from the nation’s premier medical research agency, which struggles to fund lifesaving research, to bankroll the Pentagon, the most heavily funded agency in our government.