House Plan Includes No Increase For CDRH In 2014; User Fee Sequester Unresolved

A House subcommittee passed an appropriations package last week that would keep FDA device funding levels flat in fiscal 2014. The package would increase appropriations to FDA as a whole compared to 2013, but it falls short of the President’s budget request, and leaves unresolved whether 2014 user fees would be sequestered.