Sequester Travel: Halved FDA Budget Limits Opportunities For Scientists, Impacts Senior Officials Too

FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg lamented the toll sequestration has taken on her agency’s travel budget during the keynote speech she gave at the Food and Drug Law Institute’s annual meeting in April.

Reductions to deal with the mandatory budget cuts had prevented the agency from sending some staffers to the conference in Washington, D.C., even though it is a mere subway ride from FDA headquarters. Hamburg said the impact was evident as she scanned the audience