Congratulations to the NIH

First step down: evolgen reports that the Specter-Harken amendment to increase the NIH budget. This is important: the NIH budget, which is responsible for a lot of basic biomedical research, hasn't increased in something like four years. Even for inflation. This is only the first step, there are several more to go. But it's worthy of note, especially since both of my Senators voted for it--rather pleasantly surprising, as Norm Coleman is stepping out of his adopted role as administration puppet.