Fred Upton: “And the other thing was, you know, Paul Ryan, to his credit, he said…”

On the recordJuly 20, 2021

And the other thing was, you know, Paul Ryan, to his credit, he said, you know, we added $45 billion over 10 years for health research, something that I have always supported. Actually, that was one of my first bills I worked on back in the nineties, to double the money for the NIH, and we were successful but then sort of stopped. So Paul Ryan said you got to pay for it. You know, Mike Enzi, chairman of the Budget Committee over there in the Senate, said you got to pay for it, and we came up with the pay-for-its that were real.

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Upton mentions Enzi's emphasis on funding health research responsibly.

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