At least one Republican, Rep. Rob Wittman, R-1st, is defending Virginia Commonwealth University, which stands to lose $26 million annually if the National Institutes of Health, or NIH, follows through with cutting funding for medical research.
Wittman wrote a letter to the acting director of the NIH, saying that caps on indirect spending would have “dramatic and immediate” effects on research and the local economies surrounding each university.
Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
