APPROPRIATIONS- STATUS AND OUTLOOK FOR FY2007 SPENDING BILLS (NIH, NSF & DOE)

Congress plans to send only two appropriations bills to the President for his signature before it adjourns for the November elections. The Homeland Security and Defense appropriations conference reports are expected to be voted on within the next couple weeks, and signed into law by the President before the FY2007 year begins on October 1, 2006. These two bills tie into the Republican “security first” strategy.

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NIH REAUTHORIZATION

On Tuesday, September 12, 2006, the House Energy and Commerce Committee released its NIH Reauthorization Reform Act of 2006. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Joe Barton (R-TX) plans to hold a hearing on the bill on September 19, 2006, and will mark-up the bill the following day.  

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INSIDE (The Beltway) SCOOP
- Jon Retzlaff, Legislative Director

FASEB’s Board met on Friday, September 15, 2006, and voted to endorse Chairman Barton’s NIH Reauthorization legislation and encouraged its President, Leo Furcht, M.D., to testify at the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on September 19, 2006.

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FASEB'S GRASSROOTS EFFORTS

Local Congressional Meetings and Local Initiatives
During the August Congressional recess, FASEB kicked-off a pilot project aimed at encouraging FASEB society member scientists, clinicians, and scholars to become more involved in advocating for biomedical research on a much more targeted and local level.

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BILLS, BILLS, BILLS

H.R. 4239, The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act
On September 13, 2006, FASEB contacted the House Judiciary Committee in support of the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, which would provide the Department of Justice the authority to apprehend, prosecute, and convict individuals committing animal enterprise terror. FASEB urged the committee to move the bill towards passage by the full House, and plans to support the bipartisan Senate version, S.3880, as well.

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CONGRESSIONAL SCHEDULE

The House and Senate are in session until September 29, 2006.

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