2009-04-15
In addition to congressional visits made by members of the ASH
Government Affairs Committee in March, the Society recently sent letters to all members of the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives advocating for at least a 7 percent increase in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in fiscal year (FY) 2010.
ASH also encouraged House members to call for increased NIH funding.
Consequently, a bipartisan group of 128 members of Congress sent a letter
calling for an increase of at least 7 percent in FY 2010 NIH
funding. The letter, which was sent to Representatives David Obey
(D-WI) and Todd Tiahrt (R-KS), the Chair and Ranking Member of the
House Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee, states this
level of funding "is essential to sustain advances in science and the
economic impacts of NIH-funded research."
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