DUCKWORTH, DURBIN JOIN SENATE DEMOCRATS IN DEMANDING OMB DIRECTOR VOUGHT ABANDON ANY PLAN TO EXERT POLITICAL CONTROL OVER NIH FUNDING

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 -- Sen. Tammy Duckworth issued the following press release:

[WASHINGTON, D.C.] - U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, joined U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and of 27 their colleagues in demanding White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought halt any plan to exert political control over the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) grantmaking process. The Trump Administration considering an executive order to establish and empower an external committee of political appointees with no discernable qualifications to veto any awards selected by NIH and its panels of scientific e...