The Senate Appropriations Committee approved their version of the FY2014 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill on a party line vote. Overall the bill provided for $164.3 billion in discretionary spending for the US Department of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Education, which is $7.8 billion above the FY2013 funding level BEFORE the sequester. For the National Institutes of Health, the bill provided for $31 billion in FY2014, which would restore the sequester cuts, and is above the level requested by the President in his budget
. The bill provided $1.33 billion for the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for FY2014
. The summary of the bill from the committee can be found here on the
Senate website. In addition, you can access the accompanying
report. There is no indication yet as to when the House plans to mark up their version.