Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 26, 2015. This week, Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth (IL-08) and Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-CA) led a bipartisan letter to the Subcommittee on Defense of the House Committee on Appropriations requesting inclusion of $30 million for peer-reviewed orthopaedic research in the FY 2016 Defense Appropriations legislation. Twenty-nine members of Congress signed onto to Duckworth and Hunter’s letter. Orthopaedic research is crucial to the treatment of Servicemen and Women returning from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with wounds to their extremities, and the letter looks to maintain funding from the previous year.
