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Re: Faseb Alert on Hatfield amendment to restore NIH funding -Forwarded
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Subject: Re: Faseb Alert on Hatfield amendment to restore NIH funding
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On Fri, 19 May 1995 SCHWARTZI@BIOMED.MED.YALE.EDU wrote:
> From: IN%"faseb@ns1.faseb.org" "FASEB Information Services" 19-MAY-1995
01:18:40.36
> To: IN%"schwartzi@BIOMED.MED.YALE.EDU"
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> Subj: NIH Budget
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> From: FASEB Information Services <faseb@ns1.faseb.org>
> Subject: NIH Budget
> To: schwartzi@BIOMED.MED.YALE.EDU (Ilsa R. Schwartz)
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> Dear Colleague:
>
> We urgently need your help to keep the U.S. Senate from making deep,
> destructive cuts in the National Institutes of Health budget for the next
> seven years to the Year 2002. You can help prevent this by asking your two
> U. S. Senators to encourage Senator Mark Hatfield (R-OR) to proceed with his
> amendment to restore NIH funds to the pending Senate Budget Resolution, and
> also asking them to vote for the amendment when it comes to the Senate
> floor.
>
> The Senate will begin voting on the FY 96 budget resolution in the next
> few days. The resolution is the broad fiscal blueprint that controls
> congressional spending and sets overall funding ceilings for the
> appropriations process. If the ceilings are set too low, appropriators will
> have difficulty providing NIH with the funding level it needs to maintain
> research momentum.
>
> Thus, I regret to report the pending Senate budget resolution could
> force as much as a $2.5 billion cut in current NIH funding and that level
> would be frozen until the Year 2002. If the proposed cuts are permitted to
> take place, it would damage NIH research at a time of unprecedented
> productivity, drive talented scientists, both young and established, into
> other careers, and cause the U.S.to lose its hard-won leadership in such
> fields as biotechnology and pharmaceuticals.
>
> Budget analysts say such a cut could plunge the NIH success rate for
> competing proposals to 1% from the current low level of 15-20%. That's
> right: 1%.
>
> However, we still have an opportunity to avoid a "devastating blow" to
> biomedical research.
> Senator Hatfield, Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee and a
> long-standing friend of NIH, is working on an amendment to restore NIH
> funding. But Senator Hatfield cannot win this fight unless we all help him
> and his colleagues. It's absolutely vital that you immediately call, wire,
> or fax your state's two U.S. Senators and urge them to encourage Senator
> Hatfield to proceed with his amendment and to enlist Sen. Nancy Kassebaum
> (R-Kans.) and other Senate supporters of NIH as co-sponsors of the measure.
> Also, please ask your Senators to vote for the amendment when it reaches
> the Senate floor.
>
> Your message must emphasize the threat the resolution poses to the
> public, to science, and to the economy. Make the points that NIH has been
> a tremendous investment for the American people. The research supported by
> NIH has saved lives, reduced suffering and led to lower medical costs.
> Moreover, NIH research contributes significantly to the U.S. economy,
> creating highly skilled jobs and maintaining U.S. competitiveness.
>
> I have appended a list of talking points to help you develop a brief
> message for your Senators. Also attached are the names and the Washington
> phone numbers (and fax numbers, if available) for your state's two
> Senators. I hope you also will contact members of the Senate Budget
> Committee. Their names and Washington phones numbers are attached. Don't
> use the mail or mailgrams. There isn't time.
>
> I haven't forgotten about the House version of the budget resolution.
> It also contains bad news for NIH and we presently are working to get it
> changed. Right now, however, we have a chance to turn the Senate around on
> the NIH budget by winning approval for a Hatfield amendment. You can make
> the difference in this fight -- but you must act immediately.
>
> Thank you for your help and best wishes.
> (Signed)
> Samuel C. Silverstein
> President, FASEB
>
> ***
>
> TALKING POINTS ON NIH FUNDING - FY 1996
>
> The Benefits of NIH Research
>
> * The biomedical research supported by NIH makes vital contributions to
> the nation's health, improving the quality of life, advancing science and
> creating jobs and economic growth.
>
> * Because of the discoveries made by biomedical researchers over the
> years, we live longer, healthier and more active lives. Today, an
> American's life expectancy is 75.5 years, an increase of almost five years
> since 1970.
>
> * Advances derived from NIH research save an estimated $69 billion in
> medical care costs each year, according to a FASEB survey.
>
> * NIH support for biomedical science conducted at universities and
> medical schools in all areas of the U.S. has made the U.S. the world's
> leader in such fields as biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. Sales of
> products developed through biotechnology totaled $7.7 billion in 1994. The
> industry is projected to grow to a $50 billion enterprise by the turn of the
> century.
>
> * Another FASEB survey shows that the estimated dollar value of 10
> selected biomedical discoveries adopted by industry for purposes other than
> health service is almost $92 billion. These include such commonly used
> items as freeze-drying for food preservation and use of fiber optics for
> telecommunications.
>
> Destructive Effects of Cutting NIH Funding
>
> * NIH officials say quite correctly Budget Committee proposals to cut the
> agency's funding "would be a devastating blow to biomedical research." It
> would be the kind of action that would undermine our enormous progress in
> preventing, diagnosing and curing disease.
>
> * Even without Budget Committee cuts, NIH is able to support only about
> 19 percent of new investigator-initiated research grant applications
> submitted by extramural scientists. This means that fewer than 1 in 5 new
> applications are supported, but that other excellent science is not. We
> should ask ourselves: what advances against the killing and crippling
> diseases are we willing to forego?
>
> * The Senate Budget Committee proposes to make a bad situation worse by
> actions that could force up to $2.5 billion in NIH cuts in one year alone
> (fiscal 1995 to fiscal 1996) and then freezing that "adjusted" level until
> the Year 2002.
>
> * Authoritative estimates show this could lead to a 1% success rate for
> NIH competing grants. That's right: 1%.
>
> * The NIH cut being discussed would be a disaster for the agency and for
> biomedical research. It would be enormously harmful to research at a time
> of unprecedented opportunity, drive talented scientists, both young and
> established, into other careers and cause the U.S. to lose its hard-won
> leadership in such fields as biotechnology and pharmaceuticals.
>
> * Senator Mark O. Hatfield (R-OR) may offer an amendment to restore NIH
> funding. It is vital for the Senate to pass such an amendment and then see
> that it prevails in its forthcoming budget resolution conference with the
> House.
>
>
> --------------------
> Senators from CT
>
> Senator Joe Lieberman
> Rm. 316, Hart Senate Office Building
> Washington, D.C. 20510-0703
> Phone: (202) 224-4041
> FAX: (202) 224-9750
>
> Senator Christopher J. Dodd
> Rm. 444, Russell Senate Office Building
> Washington, D.C. 20510-0702
> Phone: (202) 224-2823
> FAX:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> United States Senate Committee on the Budget
>
> Senator Pete V. Domenici, (R-NM)
> Chairman
> (202) 224-6621 (phone)
> (202) 224-7371 (fax)
>
> Senator Charles E. Grassley, (R-IA)
> (202) 224-3744 (phone)
> (202) 224-6020 (fax)
>
> Senator Don Nickles, (R-OK)
> (202) 224-5754 (phone)
> (202) 224-6008 (fax)
>
> Senator Phil Gramm, (R-TX)
> (202) 224-2934 (phone)
> (202) 228-2856 (fax)
>
> Senator Christopher S. Bond, (R-MO)
> (202) 224-5721 (phone)
> (202) 224-8149 (fax)
>
> Senator Trent Lott, (R-MS)
> (202) 224-6253 (phone)
> (202) 224-2262 (fax)
>
> Senator Hank Brown, (R-CO)
> (202) 224-5941 (phone)
> (202) 224-6471 (fax)
>
> Senator Slade Gorton, (R-WA)
> (202) 224-3441 (phone)
> (202) 224-9393 (fax)
>
> Senator Judd Gregg, (R-NH)
> (202) 224-3324 (phone)
> (202) 224-4952 (fax)
>
> Senator Olympia J. Snowe, (R-ME)
> (202) 224-5344 (phone)
> (202) 224-1946 (fax)
>
> Senator Spencer Abraham, (R-MI)
> (202) 224-4822 (phone)
> (202) 224-8834 (fax)
>
> Senator Bill Frist, (R-TN)
> (202) 224-3344 (phone)
> (202) 228-1264 (fax)
>
> Senator J. James Exon, (D-NE)
> (202) 224-4224 (phone)
> (202) 224-5213 (fax)
>
> Senator Ernest F. Hollings, (D-SC)
> (202) 224-6121 (phone)
> (202) 224-4293 (fax)
>
> Senator J. Bennett Johnston, (D-LA)
> (202) 224-5824 (phone)
> (202) 224-2952 (fax)
>
> Senator Frank R. Lautenberg, (D-NJ)
> (202) 224-4744 (phone)
> (202) 224-9707 (fax)
>
> Senator Paul Simon, (D-IL)
> (202) 224-2152 (phone)
> (202) 224-0868 (fax)
>
> Senator Kent Conrad, (D-ND)
> (202) 224-2043 (phone)
> (202) 224-7776 (fax)
>
> Senator Christopher J. Dodd, (D-CT)
> (202) 224-2823 (phone)
> (202) 224-1083 (fax)
>
> Senator Paul S. Sarbanes, (D-MD)
> (202) 224-4524 (phone)
> (202) 224-1651 (fax)
>
> Senator Barbara Boxer, (D-CA)
> (202) 224-3553 (phone)
> (202) 226-6701 (fax)
>
> Senator Patty Murray, (D-WA)
> (202) 224-2621 (phone)
> (202) 224-0238 (fax)
>