[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 21533]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        FUNDING FOR NEUROSCIENCE

  (Mr. FATTAH asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FATTAH. Mr. Speaker, over 50 million Americans suffer from a 
neurological disease or disorder, over 1 billion worldwide. I authored 
language that created an interagency working group that brought 
together dozens of federal agencies years ago, and we have laid out a 
map, a plan, over the last 4 years now including mapping the human 
brain with the BRAIN Initiative and funding a host of specific efforts.
  I am so pleased that the bill that we will pass today will have a 
historic level of funding for neuroscience, over $7 billion in efforts 
at the National Institutes of Health, a historic investment at the 
National Science Foundation, and now we have brought together our 
national labs to create a national brain observatory.
  I want to thank my colleague from Oklahoma, Tom Cole, for working 
with me as the chair of our Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, Education, and Related Agencies. And in my role on the 
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, there is 
so much more for us to do. But I am convinced that if we have the mind 
to work, we, indeed, can rebuild the walls.

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