10/21/2015
https://www.congress.gov...
"It doesn't matter what Republicans say about supporting innovation if their budgets actually cut support for NIH."
"So I do not think it is a good idea to ask them to do again what they previously failed to do spectacularly."
"But what the Republican budgets actually do is lower the budget caps that are already crushing our research agencies."
"In fact, for over 10 years, Congress has been choking off vital funding for medical research and has reduced the buying power of the National Institutes of Health by nearly 25 percent."