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FY12 Spending Debate Comes to a Close

Congress completed, and the President signed into law, the FY12 appropriations bill. The $915 billion spending bill wraps up the remaining nine appropriations measures. The bill provides funding for programs at the Department of Health and Human Services, including the National
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Rep. Rush Holt’s (D-NJ) Editorial in Most Recent Science

Science 16 September 2011:
Vol. 333 no. 6049 p. 1549
DOI: 10.1126/science.1211494
EDITORIAL:

Dueling Visions for Science

Rush Holt
Rush Holt is the U.S. Representative for New Jersey's 12th Congressional District and has a doctoral degree in physics.

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Legislative Update as of 11/7/07

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FY 2008 NIH Appropriations

On Tuesday, November 6, the House passed a combined FY 2008 Labor-Health and Human Services-Education (Labor-H) and Military Construction/Veterans Affairs Appropriations Conference Report by a vote of 269-142. The Labor-H bill contains $30 billion in funding for the NIH.

The President has vowed to veto the Labor-H bill because it exceeds his budget proposal by $10 billion. Last night’s vote is 21 votes short of the 290 votes needed to override a presidential veto (assuming all 435 members of the House vote.)

We expect that the House will have to vote again on the Labor-H conference report before it is sent to the President. The Senate is expected to separate the Labor-H and the Military Construction/Veterans Affairs appropriations bills, thus, requiring individual votes on the two bills.

We will continue to update you throughout the appropriations process. In addition, we will continue to ask you to contact your Member of Congress. Congress needs to know that their constituents feel strongly about the importance of properly funding the NIH.