AAMC, Health Groups Urge Congress to Finalize HHS Spending Bill

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November 5, 2010

AAMC, Health Groups Urge Congress to Finalize HHS Spending Bill
November 5, 2010 — The AAMC joined other health groups in a series of letters to House and Senate leaders, urging Congress to finalize the FY 2011 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations bill (S. 3686, S.Rept. 111-243).

In a Nov. 1 letter , more than 200 members of the Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research urged leaders and the chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittees to support the $1 billion increase for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) proposed by the president and approved by both appropriations subcommittees. The AAMC is a member of the Ad Hoc Group steering committee.

Additionally, AAMC supported the Coalition for Health Funding recommendation that Congress provide each of the agencies and programs of the U.S. Public Health Service – including the NIH, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and the Indian Health Service (IHS) – with the highest of the funding increases proposed by either the House or Senate. AAMC signed similar letters sent by the Friends of AHRQ and the Friends of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) , as well as a letter of the Health Professions and Nursing Education Coalition (HPNEC) regarding the Title VII and Title VIII health professions programs.

Most of the federal government is operating at FY 2010 funding levels under a Continuing Resolution (CR, P.L. 111-242), since Congress has not completed work on any of the 12 annual spending bills. The CR is set to expire Dec. 3.


Contact:


Dave Moore
Senior Director, Government Relations
Telephone: 202-828-0559
E-mail: dbmoore@aamc.org




Tannaz Rasouli
Senior Legislative Analyst, Government Relations
Telephone: 202-828-0525
E-mail: trasouli@aamc.org



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