[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 16195]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         JONATHAN GRUBER GRANT

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, Jonathan Gruber, ``smart'' MIT professor, 
ObamaCare architect, who has had to apologize for repeatedly calling 
the American voters stupid, has received millions of taxpayer dollars 
from Federal and State governments.
  He now has an NIH--National Institutes of Health--grant that adds up 
to $2 million. This grant is for an analysis to determine how people 
choose their Medicare part D prescription drug plan. That might be 
something good for CMS and HHS to know, but it is far from the real 
kind of medical research we expect NIH to be doing.
  Just a few weeks ago, the Director was saying they lacked enough 
money to fund Ebola vaccines. That was before it became widely known 
that they were funding a grant for Swedish massage for rabbits and 
other outrageous grants.
  We expect NIH to fund groundbreaking medical research to prolong 
life, develop medicines, to cure and treat diseases, not economic 
research by a man who is now infamous for insulting the American 
public.
  Dr. Andy Harris and I wrote the Director with questions about this 
grant. I hope we hear soon before another check goes out the door.

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