U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) calls for greater investment in scientific and biomedical research

U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) calls for greater federal investment in scientific and biomedical research in a speech at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Durbin discusses two pieces of legislation, The American Cures Act and the American Innovation Act, which would create a mandatory fund to provide steady, predicable funding for breakthrough research at America’s top research agencies.