Politico November 20, 2024
AROUND THE AGENCIES
House Republicans put NIH Director Monica Bertagnolli in the hot seat Tuesday, pressing her on reform and loss of agency trust during a National Institutes of Health budget hearing.
Alabama’s Robert Aderholt, a Republican appropriator who oversees the agency’s funding, expressed disappointment in the agency. Aderholt is shepherding a House reform proposal that suggests consolidating the NIH’s 27 institutes and centers to 15 and imposing five-year term limits on NIH directors.
“Instead of a bold discussion on how to move NIH into the future, we have gotten staunch adherence to the status quo. Covid has shown that the status quo is unacceptable,” Aderholt told Bertagnolli. “For many in the American public, trust in the institution is gone,...
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