WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- Sen. Patty Murray issued the following press release:
Today, at a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing (https://www.help.senate.gov/hearings/modernizing-the-national-institutes-of-health-faster-discoveries-more-cures) with U.S National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Dr. Jayanta "Jay" Bhattacharya, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA)-a former chair and senior member of the HELP Committee-spoke forcefully on how the Trump administration's cuts at the NIH have cost countless families their hope for life-changing treatments and cures and severely set back American competitiveness in biomedical research. Senator Murray also held Dr. Bhattacharya accountable for his decision to disband th...