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Abolish the Fogarty International Center Act of 2025
This bill abolishes the John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences. (The Fogarty International Center is a research center at the National Institutes of Health that focuses on global health research and international collaboration activities.)
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Rep. Gill, Brandon [R-TX-26] · R–TX
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Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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Based on the full Introduced in House · 2025-02-07 text. This explanation has not received human editorial review. This overview describes the proposal’s major provisions; it does not establish what its real-world effects would be.
This bill proposes to abolish the John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences.
The John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences is abolished.
The bill gives itself the short title “Abolish the Fogarty International Center Act of 2025.”
This Act may be cited as the Abolish the Fogarty International Center Act of 2025.
The supplied action snapshot, updated July 13, 2025, records introduction in the House and referral to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on February 7, 2025.
Source snapshot updated 2025-07-13T22:58:20Z. 2025-02-07: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. 2025-02-07: Introduced in House
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