Senate panel appropriates $2.04 billion for FDA
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
FDA will have $2.04 billion in appropriations for fiscal 2009, including $278.4 million for the device center and related field activities, under an Agriculture bill that passed the Senate Appropriations Committee July 17. The bill would give FDA $324.6 million more than it received this year, and $5.2 million more than the Bush administration's request. CDRH would gain $40.4 million more in FY 2009 appropriations over fiscal '08, and $1 million more than the president requested. The bill anticipates $52.5 million in device user fee funding for FY 2009. With the expanded FDA funding, the committee wants $104 million spent for device, drug and biologic safety to increase overseas and domestic inspections and $40 million to upgrade science programs across the agency. The House Appropriations Committee has yet to sign off on funding levels, and Chairman David Obey, D-Wis., previously suggested resorting to continuing resolutions 1("The Gray Sheet" July 7, 2008, p. 9)