[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 31 (Thursday, March 3, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H1529]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         DON'T CUT NIH FUNDING

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is 
located in Memphis, Tennessee. It is, according to U.S. News and World 
Report, the world's greatest children's and catastrophic illness 
research hospital.
  The Republican budget that passed this House talks about a lot of 
issues, but it cuts $2.5 billion from the President's requests for the 
National Institute of Health, $2.5 billion less than the President 
recommends, and a $1.6 billion cut from last year. For the children and 
the adults and everyone who has cancer and needs a cure, which they are 
finding with the help of the NIH and St. Jude and other research 
hospitals, that's a death sentence. People will die.
  If there is a place the Republicans should not cut, Mr. Speaker, it's 
at NIH grants to find cures for cancer, for Alzheimer's, for 
Parkinson's, for diabetes, for heart disease. I ask you for the living 
Americans to not cut grants to the National Institute of Health and let 
us have lives that go further than they otherwise would because of 
these crippling, catastrophic illnesses.

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