Top Research Stories for 2016: #5. Identifying the new âweak spotsâ in the âsoft underbellyâ of the most aggressive forms of prostate cancer is the ultimate PCF R+D finding. In 2016, two PCF research teams of over 50 scientists studying a protein called N-Myc, found a major vulnerable new drug target.
The Balanced Budget Act signed into law by the President on August 5, 1997 contains the largest reductions in federal Medicaid spending in Medicaid since 1981. The legislation is projected to achieve gross federal Medicaid savings of $17 billion over the next five years and $61.4 billion over the next ten years.
President Eisenhower in 1960 was the last Republican president to preside over a balanced budget. A Democrat-controlled Congress elected in 1958 approved the appropriations for that fiscal year in 1959.More recently, the federal budget was balanced in fiscal years 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001.A Republican-controlled Congress approved the appropriations for each one of those years and Democratic President Bill Clinton signed them.n fact, according to the historical data published by the Office of Management and Budget in the Obama White House, no Congress in which the Democrats controlled both the House and Senate has balanced the federal budget since fiscal 1969--more than 40 years ago.