Washington, Jan. 21 -- Congresswoman Diana DeGette issued the following press release:
Today, Congresswoman Diana DeGette (CO-01), Ranking Member of the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, introduced the Follow the Science Act to shield the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from political interference and protect the integrity of America's biomedical research.
The legislation comes exactly one year after the start of the second Trump administration, which has undermined American science by abruptly canceling research grants, installing political loyalists in scientific positions, and injecting partisan politics into peer review processes that have driven medical breakthroughs for decades. Led by a cabal of unelected ideologues i...