Roy Blunt: “I just want to be sure that we are not suggesting here that somehow anybody is stepping back from the traditional…”

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.

These funding levels will put the U.S. back on the path to eliminating TB.

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.

They decided to change the rules. I suspect that changes the Senate in fundamental ways forever.