[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 53 (Wednesday, April 2, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H2813]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             FUNDING FOR THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH

  (Mrs. DAVIS of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. DAVIS of California. Mr. Speaker, the other week, I met with 
leaders of the San Diego medical research community, who had a unified 
message: we need to end the cuts in research that have slowed medical 
innovation for the last decade.
  I am proud to be leading the bipartisan effort, along with nearly 200 
of my colleagues, to push for over $32 billion in Federal funding for 
the NIH.
  This is a very personal issue. Almost all of us know someone who is 
struggling with a disease for which the National Institutes of Health 
funding is used to find a cure. That person could be a mother, a 
father, a family friend or, even more heart-wrenching, a child. The 
disease could be cancer, Alzheimer's, diabetes, MS, or any of the other 
diseases that people face every day.
  It is more than a matter of scientific research; it is a matter of 
economics. For a generation, California has been a world leader in life 
sciences innovation, and our State is home to the most jobs, to the 
most companies, to the world's greatest concentration of top-tier 
research institutions. It is time to reverse the budget cuts that 
threaten this ecosystem and to increase the NIH budget to $32 billion.

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