I will accept the idea that nobody told anybody that this sequester was actually going to happen, even though it was in the law.
Roy Blunt: “I will accept the idea that nobody told anybody that this sequester was actually going to happen, even though it was in…”
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Blunt acknowledges the unexpected nature of the sequester despite it being legally mandated.
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We especially thank Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services (HHS), Education Chairman Roy Blunt and Ranking Member Patty Murray for their unwavering support for the NIH.
The subcommittee is in recess until 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, May 7. Thank you all.
Through the strong, bipartisan action of this Subcommittee's leaders, Chairman Roy Blunt and Ranking Member Patty Murray, Congress is helping the agency regain lost ground after years of effectively flat budgets.
I ask unanimous consent that Jeremy Pinson, a military fellow from my office, be granted floor privileges for the remainder of the Congress. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________





