Block grant opposed for NIH clinical centre

摘要

A leading congressional figure responsible for handling the budget of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) said last week that he will not support President Bill Clinton's request that all the funding for the new $310-million Clinical Research Center (CRC) should be taken from the 1997 budget. John Porter (Republican, Illinois), chairman of the House of Representatives appropriations subcommittee that oversees NIH spending, said that, in the absence of an unexpectedly large — and unlikely — budget allocation to his committee, he plans to propose that the money for the centre be distributed over three or four years.