Director Francis Collins about their 2018 budget request, as well as various kinds of medical Research Done by the agency. This is about two hours. Senator roy blunt chairs the twohour Senate Appropriations hearing subcommittee. Will come totee order. The appropriations subcommittee labor,r, wealth health, Human Services, and agencies will come to order. For my opening statement, i , whoke to recognize we had an opportunity to meet and talk about her cancer fight and the success she has made nih awhen we were out at few days ago. We are glad you are here. And i was just told the young us of your six children just got their drivers license, so good luck with that. Good luck with all of that. We are all glad to have a chance to meet with her. Im glad to have dr. Collins and the other Institute Directors here today. The budget, of course, proposes cuts. Rest assured, i think this committee will find them unacceptable, the 7. 5 million cut from nih would, according to analysts, this fundin
Foreign approval side as weve got an operation in mexico so that deal has to go through that process there. Weve got operations in brazil but theyre not the only ones. So were going through a process at the department of justice right now and, you know, our expectation is, you know, we should be through that process, we should be through, you know, the operational issues that we have to go through in order to be able to close without any license transfers and the foreign approval process and were hopeful, pretty confident that well be able to get through that by the end of the year. Watch it tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan2. Announcer a Senate Appropriation subcommittee heard from the head of the National Institutes of health, dr. Francis collins and other Top Public Health officials on the 2018 budget. This is two hours. Committee will come to order. The appropriations subcommittee on labor, health and human services, education and related agencies will come to order. Before my
Committee will come to order. The appropriations subcommittee on labor, health and human services, education and related agencies will come to order. Before my opening statement, i want to recognize melinda bikini, we had a chance to meet and talk about her cancer fight and the success shes made there when we were out in nih a few days ago, and we are glad youre here and i was just told that the youngest of your six children just got their drivers license so good luck with that. Good luck with all of that and we were glad to have a chance to meet with her, glad to have dr. Collins and the other Institute Directors here today. The budget, of course, proposes cuts that i think that you can rest assured the committee will find unacceptable. The 7. 5 billion cut from nih would according to analysts, this funding would cost nearly 90,000 jobs nationwide, result in 15. 3 billion of lost economic activity. In my home state of missouri that equates to a loss of nearly 1,700 jobs and 292 millio
Committee will come to order. The appropriations subcommittee on labor, health and human services, education and related agencies will come to order. Before my opening statement, i want to recognize melinda bikini, we had a chance to meet and talk about her cancer fight and the success shes made there when we were out in nih a few days ago, and we are glad youre here and i was just told that the youngest of your six children just got their drivers license so good luck with that. Good luck with all of that and we were glad to have a chance to meet with her, glad to have dr. Collins and the other Institute Directors here today. The budget, of course, proposes cuts that i think that you can rest assured the committee will find unacceptable. The 7. 5 billion cut from nih would according to analysts, this funding would cost nearly 90,000 jobs nationwide, result in 15. 3 billion of lost economic activity. In my home state of missouri that equates to a loss of nearly 1,700 jobs and 292 millio
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