HHS Funding Bill Still in
Limbo
November 14, 2003 - The FY 2004 Labor-HHS-Education
appropriations bill (H.R.
2660) remains in conference amid press reports that Senate
appropriators may have identified additional funds for NIH.
A copyrighted story in the Nov. 13 BNA Health Care Daily
quotes Senate Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Chair
Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) telling a meeting of the Friends of
Cancer Research that Senate Appropriations Committee Chair
Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) has identified additional funds for
NIH. Congressional staff caution, however, that the current
situation is still in flux, and it is not certain how much
funding will be available and how it will be used. Although
Senate appropriators continue to push for consideration of
the Labor-HHS conference report as a free standing bill, there
are increasing indications that the bill will be wrapped into
an end-of-session omnibus spending package.
Information:
Dave Moore, Senior Associate Vice President
AAMC Government Relations
dbmoore@aamc.org
(202) 828-0525
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