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Feb. 21, 2013

TOPIC: Advocacy, Featured News, Patients & Members, Research

Working Through the Math of the NIH Budget for Rare Disease Research: Charts Included

Posted at February 21, 2013 4:25 pm by Jason Barron

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Now that the election is well behind us, talks have resumed in Washington, DC about the Federal budget. To recap — the only major piece of the larger budget puzzle that was addressed at the end of the year was the expiration of the current Federal income tax schedule, also known as the ‘Bush tax cuts’ as they were championed and signed into law by former President George W. Bush. read more >

TAGS: Biomedical research, Budget Cuts, Fiscal Cliff, Medical research, NIH, Rare disease research, Sequester, Sequestration

Nov. 08, 2012

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Fast Forward 2013 …

Posted at November 8, 2012 10:00 pm by Diane Dorman

The elections are behind us and the lame duck Congress returns next week, hopefully to negotiate a solution to the looming “fiscal cliff” this country will face on January 1, 2013: sequestration, payroll taxes, and the Medicare “doc fix.” Sequestration, should it occur, means an across-the-board cut for federal agencies of at least 8.2%. read more >

TAGS: 112th Congress, 113th Congress, Budget Cuts, Diane Dorman, Sequestration

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