Congress advances PRV reauthorization, NIH funding, multi-cancer detection coverage

Congress is poised to revive pediatric priority review vouchers, protect NIH funding, and roll back several Trump administration health policy proposals — if lawmakers can move a bipartisan spending package across the finish line.

The House Appropriations Committee has released legislation designed to avert a government shutdown and fund the government through the end of September. A spending bill must be passed by Jan. 30 to avert a government shutdown. Although the text released Monday has bipartisan, bicameral support, the razor-thin Republican majority in the House gives a handful of budget hawks power to disrupt or delay the legislation. ...