FDA/NIH advocate, House 'Dean' John Dingell to depart Congress
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
With the departure of Representative John Dingell (Democrat-Michigan) – the longest serving member of Congress, who revealed on 24 February he does not plan to run for re-election at the end of this year – the FDA, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and American healthcare in general are losing another advocate on Capitol Hill who has not only pushed for more funding for the health and science agencies, but has been behind some of the key pieces of legislation that have affected them the most.