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Congressional Update
April 25, 2012
Current Co-Sponsor Count for the
Pancreatic Cancer Research & Education Act:
in the U.S. House of Representatives ( HR 733)
234
(including our lead sponsors, Rep. Anna Eshoo & Rep. Leonard Lance)
Click HERE for the full co-sponsor list
in the U.S. Senate ( S. 362)
47
(including our lead sponsor,
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse)
Click HERE for the full co-sponsor list to see if YOUR member has joined us!
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Pancreatic Cancer Research & Education Act Update
Thanks to your continued efforts, we have reached our goal of securing half the House as co-sponsors of the Pancreatic Cancer Research & Education Act (H.R. 733)! We need just a couple more senators to meet our goal for the U.S. Senate! We can do it, but we need your help. To learn how you can assist with this effort, please visit the Advocacy Action Center to send a message to your members of Congress about the importance of this important legislation.
Federal Funding Update
The Fiscal Year 2013 (FY2013) appropriations battle is officially heating up. As a first step in the process, the House and Senate Appropriations Sub-Committees receive their spending allocations for all of the spending bills under their jurisdiction. In other words, the Appropriations Committees’ Sub-committee on Commerce, Justice, and State receives an overall allocation that they will need to work with to fund the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State and the Appropriations’ Committee’s Subcommittee on Labor, Health & Human Services (L-HHS), and Education receives an overall allocation that they will need to use to fund the Departments of Labor, Health & Human Services (which includes NIH and NCI) and Education.
That allocation process was completed this week and unfortunately it looks like increasing funding for NIH and NCI is going to be an uphill battle, once again. The Senate L-HHS Subcommittee received an allocation of $157.7 billion for FY2013. This is less than a one percent increases over last year’s spending level for all of the bills within this subcommittee’s jurisdiction. The House L-HHS Subcommittee received an allocation of $150 billion, which is more than a four percent cut below last year’s spending. The NIH budget is generally approximately one-fifth of the total spending in the L-HHS appropriations bill, so it stands to reason that it will be very difficult to get an increase in these circumstances.
However, it is worth noting that we have faced tremendous odds in the past, and have still been able to secure increases for the NIH and we will aggressively work with our coalition partner, One Voice Against Cancer, to do so once again. Please stay tuned for further updates and action alerts.
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