As he promised new medical research, Bush also hunted for the right prescription to break ahead in a dead-even contest he had been leading in the summer. Gore, also in step with Congress, proposes to double the portion of the NIH budget that goes for research grants between 2000 and 2006. Former President Ronald Reagan is suffering from the disease. Medical research has broad bipartisan support in Congress. In fact, Congress has approved higher spending on it than President Clinton has proposed each year since legislative action started in 1997 to double the NIH budget.
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The questioner noted the trouble that the governor's father, President Bush, got into over taxes, after promising he'd never raise them and then doing so.