2022: Fitzpatrick Voted To Authorize $10 Million For Competitive
Grants To Support Interdisciplinary Research On The Impacts On Cognitive
Processes After COVID-19 Infections. In July 2022, according to
Congressional Quarterly, Fitzpatrick voted for the Brycen Gray and Ben
Price COVID--19 Cognitive Research Act, which would "authorize $10
million for the National Science Foundation to award competitive grants
to support interdisciplinary research on the disruption of regular
cognitive processes associated with COVID-19 infections. It would
specify that this includes long COVID-19 and infections in children and
adolescents. Within total authorized funding, it would authorize $1
million for the foundation, in partnership with the National Academies
of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, to produce a study, within 16
months of the bill's enactment, on the disruption of cognitive
processes associated with COVID-19 infection. It would require the
National Academies to submit a report to Congress on the study and then
require the foundation, within three months of that report, to submit to
Congress a summary of any plans to implement recommendations contained
in the report." The vote was on passage. The House passed the bill by a
vote 359-62, thus the bill was sent to Senate. The Senate did not take
substantive action on the bill. [House Vote 391,
7/26/22; Congressional
Quarterly, 7/26/22;
Congressional Actions, H.R.
7180]