Dear Chair Baldwin and Ranking Member Capito:
"Thank you for your leadership on funding support for biomedical research and public health. As you consider the FY2024 Labor-HHS-Education and Related Agencies appropriation bill, the undersigned members of the Friends of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) ask you to provide at least $50.924 billion for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), an increase of $3.465 billion (7.3%) over the previous fiscal year, to sustain the innovative biomedical research pipeline that generates prevention strategies, treatments and cures for diseases affecting millions of Americans. As part of our overall recommendation for the NIH, we ask you to provide a comparable increase of 7.3% for NIEHS to a total of $980.7 million for FY 2024."
