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CDC Statement on Labor HHS Bill
October 26, 2005
We have maintained a level amount of spending for CDC in Atlanta, for the completion of our master plan over the last 5 years. The ADAP appropriations for 2001 was $589 million. In 2002, that rose to $639 million; then $714 million; then $748 million; and in the 2005 appropriations, it was $793 million. In 2006, we expect $797.5 million.
It is not like we haven't been increasing the funding for ADAP. We have, and we need to continue to do so, but not at the expense of providing the most premier medical scientists and researchers in the world with a facility within which to work.
I urge my colleagues to vote against this amendment.
Again, I say to Senator Specter and Senator Harkin that under their leadership, we do have the most premier medical research facility in the world located in Atlanta, GA, today, and we need to continue to provide the funding for this master plan, which we will now complete in another couple of years. We should be able to continue to attract the very finest and best that the world has to offer. We also need to ensure that Americans are safe, when the avian flu presents a threat, that our scientists are able to respond, as they are doing today, and that they have the habitat within which to work, allowing them to do the very best job they can do to protect Americans and to protect the world from the health hazards that exist.
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