Tammy Baldwin

I was proud to author the Next Generation Researchers Act with Senator Collins to improve NIH opportunities for new and early stage researchers.

I see my time has ended. I'm going to turn it to Senator Capito.

We have to utilize every tool in our toolbox, from stopping it from coming into our country to preventing its use to bringing an end to this national crisis.

I just want to comment also that when we look at this oversight, we want to make sure that we don't prompt scientists to move their experiments to countries where there are less stringent requirements.

What they have proposed would require deep cuts to the NIH and would lock in those cuts over the next decade.

It would be a chilling effect on the entire biomedical research enterprise.

Thank you for what you do and how you have devoted your careers.

I look forward to working with my colleagues to ensure NIH has the resources it needs across its 27 institutes and centers to continue the progress of recent years.

Cutting spending as they have proposed would mean slashing approximately 22 percent from programs next year.

We cannot afford to have NIH's potential limited or even worse have its legs cut out from under it.

It would mean a cut of over $10 billion in fiscal year 2024 alone for life-saving medical research at NIH.

The juxtaposition of an act taken by the House Republicans last week that would result in drastic cuts to our public health programs and our research initiatives, and cuts that would undermine our Nation's competitiveness, as well as our…

So this will end our hearing today. I want to thank all of our committee members who attended for their thoughtful questions.

I was proud to author the Next Generation Researchers Act with Senator Collins to improve NIH opportunities for new and early stage researchers.

I am hopeful that this body will act. I am hopeful that we will come together and actually do something to put parents back in the driver's seat and to protect our children.

I see my time has ended. I'm going to turn it to Senator Capito.

We have to utilize every tool in our toolbox, from stopping it from coming into our country to preventing its use to bringing an end to this national crisis.

I just want to comment also that when we look at this oversight, we want to make sure that we don't prompt scientists to move their experiments to countries where there are less stringent requirements.

What they have proposed would require deep cuts to the NIH and would lock in those cuts over the next decade.

It would be a chilling effect on the entire biomedical research enterprise.

Thank you for what you do and how you have devoted your careers.

It is outrageous that NIH is complicit in this case of pass the harasser and I want to know what you're doing to hold the researcher and institutions accountable and how you will prevent incidents like this from happening again in the…

Fortunately, here in the Senate, Ranking Member Capito and I are focused on writing a bipartisan Labor/HHS spending bill to move our country forward.

Finally, before I turn it over to Senator Capito, I want to mention an article published last week in Science revealing NIH's failure to discipline an investigator with a known documented history of sexual harassment.

I look forward to working with my colleagues to ensure NIH has the resources it needs across its 27 institutes and centers to continue the progress of recent years.