{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senator-markey-helps-secure-300-million-increase-for-alzheimers-research-in-omnibus-spending-bill", "Senator Markey Helps Secure $300 Million Increase for Alzheimers Research in Omnibus Spending BillRead More", "2020-12-22", "2020", "2020-12", "Democrat", "House", "MA", "Edward Markey", "M000133", "www.markey.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Washington (December 22, 2020)  Senator Edward\r\nJ. Markey (D-Mass.), Senate co-chair of the Bipartisan Congressional Task Force\r\non Alzheimer's Disease, today commended the inclusion of $3.1 billion for\r\nAlzheimer's and related dementia research funding at the National Institutes of\r\nHealth (NIH) in the year-end spending bill. This funding is a $300 million\r\nincrease over last year's appropriations, and meets the funding level the NIH\r\nestimates it will need to effectively treat or prevent Alzheimer's by 2025,\r\nbased on its most recent annual Alzheimer's Disease budget conducted pursuant\r\nto Senator Markey's Alzheimer's Accountability Act. Currently, more than\r\n5.5 million Americans live with Alzheimer's disease, and by 2060, that number\r\nis expected to triple.  We\r\nneed big, bold investments in medical and clinical research in order to defeat\r\nthe devastating disease that is Alzheimer's, said Senator Markey. My\r\nmother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 1985, and we cared for her in our\r\nliving room until she passed in 1998. I know the pain this disease causes, and\r\nI also know the love that families and caregivers have for their loved ones\r\nliving with it. I am proud to have fought for the appropriations included in\r\nthis year's spending bill, which will be critical to our fight for a cure.  \r\n\r\nIn Fiscal Year 2020, Senator Markey helped to\r\nsecure $2.8 billion for Alzheimer's and related dementia research at NIH, a\r\n370% increase since 2014.  Throughout\r\nhis years in Congress, Senator Markey has been a champion for raising awareness\r\nof Alzheimer's disease and working to find a cure. He is the House author of\r\ntheNational\r\nAlzheimer's Project Act (NAPA), which became\r\nlaw in 2011. Passage of NAPA led to the creation of a National Alzheimer's Plan\r\nto effectively prevent and treat Alzheimer's by the year 2025. In 2014, Senator\r\nMarkey'sAlzheimer's\r\nAccountability Actwas signed into law,\r\nas part of the fiscal year 2015 appropriations package, which requires the NIH\r\nto report to Congress how much additional funding the agency needs annually to meet\r\nthe milestones set forth in Senator Markey'sNational Alzheimer's\r\nProject Act.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senator-markey-helps-secure-300-million-increase-for-alzheimers-research-in-omnibus-spending-bill"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.36033508554101, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}