Impose term limits at NIH and consider block granting its research budget
What the document says“Term limits should be imposed on top career leaders at the NIH, and Congress should consider block granting NIH’s grants budget to states”
The chapter says research funding should not be controlled by what it calls a small group of highly paid and unaccountable insiders, many of whom stay in power for decades, and that the monopoly on directing research should be broken. It notes that states could partner to co-fund larger projects and that state funding would not preclude more modest federal funding.
What the document actually says“Term limits should be imposed on top career leaders at the NIH, and Congress should consider block granting NIH’s grants budget to states”
Limit how long the top people at NIH can serve. Congress could also send the research money to states.
The NIH funds most medical research. The same people run it for decades. The book says there should be time limits. It says states could hand out the money instead.
Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Nothing indexed imposes term limits on NIH career leadership or block grants any part of the NIH grants budget to the states. None of the candidates concerns NIH: two are law firm cases, and the three laws cover veterans' life insurance, an energy conservation disapproval and the small business research programs. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.