NRCC Paid Web Ad Highlights John Tierney’s Vote Against Funding for Children’s Cancer and Autism Research

The National Republican Congressional Committee is launching a paid web ad today targeting Massachusetts Democrat John Tierney for voting against a bipartisan bill, signed into law by President Obama yesterday, that funds research into pediatric cancerand autism.

The Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act eliminates taxpayer financing of presidential campaigns and party conventions and redirects $126 million over 10 years to expand pediatric cancer and autism research at the National Institutes of Health through the NIH Common Fund. The bill passed the House of Representatives 295 to 103 with five members of the Massachusetts Congressional delegation voting for the bill (Neal, Capuano, Lynch, Keating and Tsongas). It passed the Senate by unanimous consent and the President signed the bill into law on April 3, 2014.

Tierney joined House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi in voting against the bill.

 “It is absolutely pathetic that John Tierney would break from the majority of the Massachusetts Congressional delegation, the Democrat-led Senate, and even President Obama and vote against funding research into pediatric autism and cancer just because it was a Republican bill,” said NRCC Spokesman Ian Prior. “In a rare moment when Congress and the President came together in a bipartisan manner to get things done, it was the extreme partisan Tierney who once again dug in his heels and put political party time over scientific advancements just to stay in line with Nancy Pelosi.”

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