Congressional Republican leaders have outlined what they think are “wasteful provisions in the Senate version of the nearly $900 billion stimulus bill that is being debated.”
Several health-related proposals are among those “wasteful” expenditures:
- $400 million for the Centers for Disease Control to screen and prevent STD’s.
- $75 million for “smoking cessation activities.”
- $25 million for tribal alcohol and substance abuse reduction.
- $88 million for renovating the headquarters of the Public Health Service.
- $412 million for CDC buildings and property.
- $500 million for building and repairing National Institutes of Health facilities in Bethesda, Md.
- $100 million for reducing the hazard of lead-based paint.
