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Patty Murray: “I'm proud of our work on Cures to address head-on some of the hardest to treat diseases by providing nearly $4.8 billion…”

On the recordDecember 6, 2017
I'm proud of our work on Cures to address head-on some of the hardest to treat diseases by providing nearly $4.8 billion in funding for the NIH.
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Patty Murray
Democratic · Washington

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Murray expresses pride in funding for NIH to tackle difficult diseases through the Cures Act.

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