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On the recordAugust 22, 2018
The Appropriations Committee is on track to provide record funding for the fourth year in a row to the National Institutes of Health.
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Lamar Alexander
Republican · Tennessee

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Alexander asserts ongoing record funding for NIH by Congress.

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