JOHN PORTER

摘要

In 1995 when the Republicans took over the US House of Representatives, times were tight for the Appropriations Subcommittee for Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, which allocates funds to the National Institutes of Health. Under a new budget resolution, the House budget committee told John Porter, then subcommittee chair, he needed to shave 5% from the National Institutes of Health budget each year for the next five years. "I thought it was insane," Porter recalls one June afternoon from behind his imposing mahogany desk at Hogan and Hartson, a law firm in Washington, DC.