WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 -- Sen. Patty Murray issued the following press release:
Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, held a press conference at Seattle Children's Hospital on the heels of securing $48.7 billion, a $415 million increase, for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to strengthen biomedical research. Last year in Seattle (https://www.murray.senate.gov/in-seattle-senator-murray-highlights-consequences-of-trump-elons-cuts-layoffs-at-nih-hears-from-leading-researchers-patients-and-early-career-scientists/), Senator Murray heard from leading researchers and others about the havoc Trump wreaked on NIH, Senator Murray pledged early on to tear up Trump's budget and write a new one-...