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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysaula0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUT-ENTICATED US. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND EDUCATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2019 THURSDAY, MAY 17, 2018 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 10:02 a.m. in room SD-124, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Roy Blunt (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Blunt, Alexander, Moran, Capito, Hyde-Smith, Murray, Durbin, Reed, Shaheen, and Murphy. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STATEMENT OF FRANCIS S. COLLINS, M.D., Ph.D., DIRECTOR ACCOMPANIED BY: ANTHONY S. FAUCI, M.D., DIRECTOR, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AL- LERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES RICHARD J. HODES, M.D., DIRECTOR, NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING WALTER J. KOROSHETZ, M.D., DIRECTOR, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE NORMAN E. SHARPLESS, M.D., DIRECTOR NATIONAL CANCER IN- STITUTE NORA VOLKOW, M.D., DIRECTOR, NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR ROY BLUNT Senator BLUNT. The Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies will come to order. We are glad to have our friends from NIH (National Institutes of Health) here today: Dr. Collins and the Institute Directors. Recent support, I think, of medical research from our sub- committee and the full committee and the Congress is clear. Dur- ing the 3 years that Senator Murray and I have worked together on this committee, we have increased funding for the National In- stitutes of Health by 23 percent, $7 billion above where we were just 3 years ago. We have nearly tripled the Alzheimer's research amount, started the Precision Medicine Initiative, and targeted re- (1)

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