108th Congress

House Appropriations Subcommittee Holds FY 2004 Budget Hearing

On April 8, 2003, the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, and Education (Representative Ralph Regula [R-OH], Chairman) held a second hearing as part its review of the Fiscal Year 2004 NIH budget. Dr. Elias Zerhouni, Director of NIH, provided an NIH Overview. Dr. Zerhouni was accompanied by:

• Dr. Raynard Kington, Deputy Director of NIH
• Dr. James Battey, Director of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
• Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Human Genome Institute
• Dr. Thomas Insel, Director of the National Institute of Mental Health.

In addition, the following Institute Directors and Senior Staff also accompanied Dr. Zehouni:

• Dr. Duane Alexander, Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
• Dr. Stephen Katz, Director of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
• Dr. Gerald Keusch, Director of the Fogarty International Center
• Dr. Ruth Kirschstein, Senior Advisor to the Director of NIH
• Dr. Claude Lenfant, Director of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
• Dr. Ting-Kai Li, Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
• Dr. Kenneth Olden, Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
• Dr. Roderic Pettigrew, Director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
• Dr. Vivian Pinn, Associate Director for Research on Women's Health and Director of the Office of Research on Women's Health
• Mr. Donald Poppke, Acting Associate Director for Budget

Hearing Report: Fiscal Year 2004 Appropriations