WASHINGTON, May 12 -- Sen. Dick Durbin issued the following press release:
U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) today reintroduced the American Cures Act, legislation that restores the United States' commitment to breakthrough scientific and biomedical research. The American Cures Act would create mandatory funds to provide steady, predictable funding for breakthrough research at America's top research agencies, allowing the U.S. to remain a leader in development and discovery for decades to come.
The American Cures Act would overcome the uncertainty of the annual discretionary appropriations process-in which critical investments for biomedical and scientific research risk being crowded out by other spending-and instead set a st...