E&C Proposes $3B To Set Up Biden Admin’s Proposed ARPA-H

House Energy & Commerce Committee Democrats set aside $3 billion to establish the Biden administration’s proposed biomedical research agency, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), in their pieces of the party’s larger Build Back Better Act. The committee on Thursday (Sept. 9) released details of the legislative pieces it plans to mark up Monday (Sept. 13). E&C’s $3 billion ARPA-H proposal is less than half the $6.5 billion President Joe Biden wants for the new agency, which would...