Clinical trials and publicly funded biomedical research can be life-changing. I know they were for my family. Yet during the Republican government shutdown, the NIH was not able to support new grants, do in-house research, or operate clinicaltrials.gov. Each day of the government shutdown, patients were denied access to treatments, therapeutics and cures through new clinical trials. That is why I partnered with @reploritrahan and @reprobinkelly to demand answers from @hhsgov and @nihgov about th

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