Lois Capps: “I rise to also support this bill and hope that the initiatives taken in this legislation will enable the National…”

“I rise to also support this bill and hope that the initiatives taken in this legislation will enable the National Institutes of Health to best carry out its mission and achieve groundbreaking scientific discoveries. Sometimes when constituents ask me what good is this place where I work, this Federal Government, I tell them just look out at Bethesda, Maryland, where the National Institutes of Health work every day, hard every day to achieve miracles that translate into lives changed in this country on a daily basis. I also want to thank Chairman Barton for his great efforts on this bill. He has been working tirelessly to see that this reauthorization actually did happen, and he did it in a bipartisan manner. At the same time, we have missed some great opportunities, and I will mention two, one of which has been mentioned already by my colleague. First, we are not providing the NIH with enough funds to carry out the amazing work that they do and that we ask them to do.”