The Hon. Tom Cole Chairman House Appropriations Committee H-307 The Capitol Washington, DC 20515

We are extremely concerned about the cuts to public health and biomedical research programs, including the $48 billion funding level for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that would result in cuts to research. [...] Authorizing an entirely new structure for the NIH in an appropriations bill without hearings, data, and review of the impact on biomedical research is a violation of process and procedures. [...] Consequently, we urge the Committee to remove the language to restructure NIH and urge that there be congressional hearings and a deliberate bipartisan and bicameral process before advancing legislation to restructure the NIH. [...] Wood Foundation Renal Physicians Association Respiratory Health Association Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation Rutgers School of Public Health Sickle Cell Disease Association of America Sjogren's Foundation Sober Livers, Fatty Liver Foundation Impact Program Society for Birth Defects Research and Prevention Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic. [...] Komen SynGAP Research Fund The AIDS Institute The Cameron Boyce Foundation The Coalition for Clinical Trial Equity The Cute Syndrome Foundation The Endometriosis Summit The Judy Nicholson Kidney Cancer Foundation THE KAT6 FOUNDATION INC The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society The Louisa Adelynn Johnson Fund for Complex Disease The MED13L Foundation The Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Action Network The National.