legislation: 119-s-4494

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119-s-4494 119 s 4494 American Cures Act Health 2026-05-12 2026-05-12 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. (text: CR S2239) Senate Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] IL D D000563 3 American Cures Act This bill permanently funds several federal agencies and programs that perform biomedical research.The bill provides specified funding forthe National Institutes of Health,the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,the Department of Defense health program, andthe Department of Veterans Affairs medical and prosthetics research program.The bill exempts the funding from sequestration, which is a process of automatic, usually across-the-board spending reductions under which budgetary resources are permanently cancelled to enforce specific budget policy goals.It also exempts the budgetary effects of the funding from the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) Act of 2010 and the Senate PAYGO rule. 2026-05-15T18:42:22Z  

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