AAI
Public Affairs
Policy Issues:
NIH Reform Act of 2006 |
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New Law Enacted in 2007: NIH
Reform Act of 2006 Rep. Joe Barton
(R-6th, TX), then-Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce
Committee, introduced H.R. 6164, “The National Institutes of Health
Reform
Act of 2006” in September of 2006
Goals: To ensure
accountability and transparency; to foster interdisciplinary
and collaborative research
Action on bill
(H.R.6164):
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AAI’s major goals during the NIH reauthorization process:
- To ensure
balance between 1) the need of the NIH director to manage and be
accountable for the agency and 2) NIH’s longstanding and successful
decentralized leadership structure
- To ensure
that any changes Congress makes will improve, and not damage, NIH and its
interaction with working scientists
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House Energy and Commerce
Committee
- Drafts any
“reauthorization” legislation affecting NIH (to retain, eliminate,
and/or modify NIH programs and policies; to reorganize or eliminate
institutes and centers)
- Has “oversight”
(investigations) authority
Senate Health, Education, Labor and
Pensions Committee
- Drafts any
“reauthorization” legislation affecting NIH (to retain, eliminate,
and/or modify NIH programs and policies; to reorganize or eliminate
institutes and centers)
- Has “oversight”
(investigations) authority
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