Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) is
circulating this letter to the Appropriations Committee requesting $35
billion for the National Institutes of Health for Fiscal Year 2011, an 11.9%
increase over FY 2010. The NIH is the world's leading research institution and
the single largest source of biomedical research funding in the world, but the
NIH has been losing purchasing power over the last few years as its funding has
not kept up with inflation.
NIH grants fund critical research and create jobs for researchers, lab assistants and others. The NIH has estimated that the ARRA funds will create or retain 50,000 jobs, and
Families USA estimates that every $1 of NIH funding results in more than $2 in
additional business activity and economic output.
If you are in support of increased funding for NIH, we encourage you to contact your two United States senators and ask them to sign onto this
letter. Other current signatories include Senators
Charles Schumer (D-NY), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Russ Feingold (D-WI), and Daniel
Akaka (D-HI). Contact information
for all senators can be found at: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm.
The deadline for
senators to sign the letter is close of business on Thursday, June
3rd. All the details are contained below in the note from Senator
Casey's staff.
To see how much
funding your state gets from the NIH, please visit this site: http://report.nih.gov/award/trends/State_Congressional/StateOverview.cfm.
You can also use this tool: http://projectreporter.nih.gov/reporter.cfm to look
up grants in a portion of the state, by year, funded by the Recovery Act,
etc.
If
your Senator would like to sign on to the letter, please ask them to contact Sara
Mabry in Senator Bob Casey's office at 202-224-6324 or sara_mabry@casey.senate.gov by 5 p.m. on June
3,
2010.
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Sincerely,
Alice, Laura, Joanne, Heidi and Adrienne
SADS Foundation
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