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