MCPP is thankful for the strong bipartisan support that the subcommittee leaders, Chairwoman Patty Murray and Ranking Member Roy Blunt, have shown in providing the NIH with its seventh consecutive funding increase during this time of constrained budgets.
Blunt acknowledges bipartisan support for NIH funding increases amid budget constraints.
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I am glad to get a chance to talk while Senator Manchin and Senator Collins, both good friends of mine who are here, and talk about some of the reasons for the hearing today.
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. ____________________
I know I am leaving the Committee in good hands as Senator Fischer moves into the position of Ranking Member at the beginning of the next Congress.
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