Senators Casey and Toomey, Support Please

Support the bipartisan Durbin-Blunt Amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), when the Senate considers the bill this week

The NDAA reauthorizes the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs, including the MS Research Program (MSRP).

The Durbin-Blunt Amendment will remove language in the NDAA that threatens the existence of the MSRP.

As currently written, the NDAA would prohibit funding for medical research by DoD unless such research meets very narrowly defined criteria and places unnecessary and burdensome red-tape acquisition compliance and auditing requirements on research programs within the DoD.  The Durbin-Blunt Amendment would nullify Sections 733, 891, 892, and 893 of the NDAA.

I functioned as a reader (evaluator) in 2016 for MSRP Grant Applications and as a Veteran with a Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis (one of 20,000 veterans know to the VA with the diagnoses). We need the research!