House Plan Includes No Increase For CDRH In 2014; User Fee Sequester Unresolved
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
A House subcommittee passed an appropriations package last week that would keep FDA device funding levels flat in fiscal 2014. The package would increase appropriations to FDA as a whole compared to 2013, but it falls short of the President’s budget request, and leaves unresolved whether 2014 user fees would be sequestered.
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