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

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

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.

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…

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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