Senate Committee approves NIH nominee for confirmation by full Senate

Senate panel advances NIH nominee Bertagnolli - Roll Call President Biden’s choice to run the National Institutes of Health won approval from a key Senate committee. Ariel Cohen Roll Call

After months of back and forth, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Wednesday advanced the nomination of Monica Bertagnolli to lead the National Institutes of Health by a vote of 15-6, with ranking member Bill Cassidy, R-La., voting for President Joe Biden’s nominee and Chairman Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., opposing it.

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Sanders has long used Bertagnolli’s nomination to make a point about the Biden administration’s prescription drug policy. When Biden first announced plans to nominate Bertagnolli in May, Sanders delayed her confirmation hearing for months because of concerns that the Biden administration was not doing enough to lower the cost of prescription drugs...