NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH

Bills and resolutions

Alzheimer’s disease: submit an annual budget estimate for Alzheimer’s disease initiatives (see S. 2192), S1923 [1AP] (see H.R. 4351), H2801 [1AP]

Appropriations: prioritize funding to discover treatments and cures, maintain global leadership in medical innovation, and restore purchasing power (see H.R. 5580), H7884 [18SE]

——— prioritize funding to discover treatments and cures, maintain global leadership in medical innovation, restore purchasing power (see S. 2658), S4903 [24JY]

Armed Forces: require mental health assessments before enlistment or commissioning as an officer (see S. 2231), S2327 [9AP] (see H.R. 4305), H2695 [26MR]

Awards, medals, prizes: implement prize competitions with the goal of improving health outcomes and thereby reducing Federal expenditures (see H.R. 5790), H8365 [3DE]

Biomedical Research Fund: establish (see S. 2115), S1584 [12MR] (see H.R. 4384), H2913 [3AP]

Children and youth: prohibit funding to medical institutions that conduct certain research on wards of the State or which threaten to disrupt families through allegations of child medical abuse (see H.R. 4518), H3292 [29AP]

Dept. of HHS: provide grants to States to establish maternal mortality review committees on pregnancy-related deaths, define severe maternal morbidity, and eliminate maternal health disparities (see H.R. 4216), H2360 [12MR]

——— reauthorize certain provisions relating to autism and establish a National Autism Spectrum Disorder Initiative (see S. 2449), S3507 [9JN] (see H.R. 4631), H4058 [9MY]

——— require NIH to consider sex differences in medical research and direct FDA to guarantee clinical drug trials are sufficient to determine safety and effectiveness for both men and women (see H.R. 4879), H5398 [17JN]

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations (see H.R. 5464), H7528 [15SE]

Diseases: commend progress made by, and reaffirm commitment to, anti-tuberculosis programs (see S. Res. 393), S1691 [24MR]

——— facilitate effective research on, and treatment of, neglected tropical diseases through coordinated domestic and international efforts (see H.R. 4847), H5318 [11JN]

——— improve asthma management, education, and research (see S. 2804), S5588 [15SE]

Drugs: encourage development and use of new antimicrobial drugs in order to treat antibiotic-resistant infections (see H.R. 4187), H2300 [11MR]

Funding (see H.R. 5724), H8033 [17NO]

Health: improve understanding and coordination of critical care health services (see S. 2966), S6205 [20NO]

National Institute of Mental Health: provide funding to support suicide prevention and brain research, including the Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative (see S. 2035), S1001 [24FE] (see H.R. 4075), H1937 [25FE]

National Pediatric Stroke Awareness Month: observance (see S. Res. 459), S3294 [22MY] (see H. Res. 598), H4834 [23MY]

National Sepsis Awareness Month: designate (see S. Res. 568), S5784 [18SE]

Research: allocate additional funding through the Common Fund for research by emerging scientists (see H.R. 5820), H8931 [9DE]

——— develop a pilot program to improve medical trial participation, retention, efficiency, effectiveness, and diversity (see H. Res. 510), H2301 [11MR]

——— ensure scientists are being funded at the age when they are most likely to make breakthroughs (see H.R. 5819), H8931 [9DE]

Science: improve opportunities for the next generation of researchers through initiative within NIH and the National Academy of Sciences (see H.R. 5451), H7454 [11SE]

Tourette syndrome: expand, intensify, and coordinate programs and activities (see S. 2851), S5781 [18SE] (see H.R. 4221), H2360 [12MR]

Women: research risks posed by dioxin, synthetic fibers, and other additives in feminine hygiene products and urge the FDA to monitor and disclose contaminants in all menstrual hygiene products (see H.R. 4746), H4909 [28MY]

Lists

Organizations supporting S. 2658, Accelerating Biomedical Research Act, S4907 [24JY]

Remarks in House

Accelerating Medicines Partnership: tribute, E332 [6MR]

Alzheimer’s disease: submit an annual budget estimate for Alzheimer’s disease initiatives (H.R. 4351), H4681, H4682 [20MY], H5872, H5873 [8JY], H8270 [2DE], E1720 [3DE], E1734 [4DE]

Appropriations: prioritize funding to discover treatments and cures, maintain global leadership in medical innovation, and restore purchasing power (H.R. 5580), H8043 [18NO]

Armed Forces: require mental health assessments before enlistment or commissioning as an officer, H4752 [21MY], H4815 [22MY], H6818 [25JY], H7919 [12NO]

——— require mental health assessments before enlistment or commissioning as an officer (H.R. 4305), H2614 [25MR], H3065 [9AP], H3148 [10AP], H7401 [10SE]

Children and youth: provide for a pediatric research initiative through use of funds saved by terminating taxpayer financing of Presidential election campaigns and party conventions (H.R. 2019), H1551 [4FE], H2994 [8AP]

Dept. of Defense: collaborate with NIH to combat triple negative breast cancer, H5409 [18JN]

Dept. of HHS: reauthorize certain provisions relating to autism and establish a National Autism Spectrum Disorder Initiative (H.R. 4631), H5688–H5693 [24JN], E1062 [24JN], E1067, E1069 [25JN], E1079 [26JN], E1095 [30JN]

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations, H441 [15JA], H4813 [22MY]

Diseases: Alzheimer’s disease research funding, H7999 [17NO], H8074 [19NO], H8228, H8267–H8272 [2DE], H8288 [3DE], E1587 [14NO], E1698 [2DE], E1734 [4DE], E1814 [12DE]

——— childhood cancer research funding, H7304 [9SE]

——— commend progress made by, and reaffirm commitment to, anti-tuberculosis programs, E425 [24MR]

——— efforts to contain Ebola outbreak in Africa, H6865 [28JY], H7614 [16SE]

——— efforts to contain Ebola outbreak in Africa funding, H7545 [16SE]

——— facilitate effective research on, and treatment of, neglected tropical diseases through coordinated domestic and international efforts (H.R. 4847), E1346 [8SE]

FDA: improve priority review voucher incentive program for expedited review of treatments for tropical and rare pediatric diseases, E1321 [1AU]

Funding, H2813 [2AP], H3066 [9AP], H4813 [22MY], E1629 [19NO]

Gruber, Jonathan: justify award of NIH grant relative to controversial remarks on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and NIH funding priorities, H8136 [20NO]

Mental health: address rising rates of autism, H4482 [20MY]

Mining and mineral resources: place a moratorium on permitting for mountaintop removal coal mining until health studies are conducted by the Dept. of HHS (H.R. 526), H2624 [25MR]

National Library of Medicine: tribute to ‘‘Native Voices—Native People’s Concepts of Health and Illness’’ traveling exhibit, E1137 [10JY]

Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Research Centers: reauthorize and extend (H.R. 594), H6933–H6935 [28JY]

Tourette syndrome: expand, intensify, and coordinate programs and activities (H.R. 4221), H4483 [20MY]

Women: research risks posed by dioxin, synthetic fibers, and other additives in feminine hygiene products and urge the FDA to monitor and disclose contaminants in all menstrual hygiene products (H.R. 4746), E847 [28MY]

Remarks in Senate

Appropriations: prioritize funding to discover treatments and cures, maintain global leadership in medical innovation, restore purchasing power (S. 2658), S4906 [24JY]

Biomedical Research Fund: establish (S. 2115), S2312, S2313 [9AP], S2553 [30AP]

Children and youth: provide for a pediatric research initiative through use of funds saved by terminating taxpayer financing of Presidential election campaigns and party conventions (H.R. 2019), S3 [6JA], S1491, S1492 [11MR]

Dept. of Defense: Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program funding, S517 [28JA]

Dept. of HHS: reauthorize certain provisions relating to autism and establish a National Autism Spectrum Disorder Initiative (H.R. 4631), S5312 [31JY]

Depts. of Labor, HHS, and Education, and related agencies: making appropriations, S412 [16JA], S3647–S3649 [12JN]

Diseases: efforts to contain Ebola outbreak in Africa, S5596, S5597 [16SE]

Funding, S708 [4FE], S2743 [7MY]

Medical research: funding, S2553 [30AP]

National Institute on Aging: Alzheimer’s disease research funding, S2303 [9AP]

National Pediatric Stroke Awareness Month: observance (S. Res. 459), S3308, S3309 [22MY]

Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Research Centers: reauthorize and extend (H.R. 594), S5862 [18SE]

Tourette syndrome: expand, intensify, and coordinate programs and activities (S. 637), S3178 [20MY]

Reports filed

Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education, and Support (Autism CARES) Act: Committee on Energy and Commerce (House) (H.R. 4631) (H. Rept. 113–490), H5639 [23JN]

——— Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (Senate) (S. 2449), S4153 [26JN]

NIH Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Research Centers Reauthorization and Extension: Committee on Energy and Commerce (House) (H.R. 594) (H. Rept. 113–556), H6813 [24JY]

Texts of

H.R. 594, NIH Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Research Centers reauthorization and extension, H6933 [28JY]

H.R. 4631, Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education, and Support (Autism CARES) Act, H5688–H5690 [24JN]

S. 2115, American Cures Act, S1586 [12MR]

S. Res. 393, support goals of World Tuberculosis Day and commend progress made by, and reaffirm commitment to, anti-tuberculosis programs, S1694 [24MR]

S. Res. 459, National Pediatric Stroke Awareness Month, S3301 [22MY]

S. Res. 568, National Sepsis Awareness Month, S5798 [18SE]