I would say that that is a nice promise, but the fact is that the bill before us does in fact short-sheet NIOSH by $32 million. It does not allow NIOSH to meet the obligations that they are supposed to meet by accepting the Bureau of Mines programs.
Discussing funding issues related to NIOSH in a legislative bill.
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