The legislation introduced last session by Chairman Rockefeller, which focused on promoting research, requiring standards development, and implementing uniform standards, would be an enormous step in the right direction.
Rockefeller's legislation aims to improve forensic science standards and funding.
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Just as a follow-up to the question of funding which was addressed, CBO actually has come out with an estimate on what all of this would cost. It is not $20 billion; it is in the area of zero up to $10 billion over that period of 4 years.
We are talking about dealing with everything from continuing resolutions, all of the appropriations, what are we going to do about ISIS, and all the rest of it, in a lame duck session forum.
That is stunning. It has not been reauthorized, CHIP. It is still out there, floating.
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