FDA appropriations
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
House Appropriations/agriculture subcommittee more than doubles FDA's budget for buildings and facilities from $8.4 mil. in FY 94 to just over $18 mil. in FY 95 at a May 26 budget markup. The increase is intended to cover the cost of replacing the agency's Los Angeles laboratory, which Chairman Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) called a "disaster" and a "dangerous place to work." The committee also provided FDA with $79 mil. in Rx user fees, consistent with funding levels authorized by the 1992 Prescription Drug User Fee Act, but only a fraction of the $343 mil. in user fees requested in the administration's FY 95 proposed budget. The subcommittee set the total level of FDA funding at $914 mil. plus user fees. In 1994, net government outlays were $873 mil. plus $61 mil. in user fee collections, for total funding of $934 mil
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