President Obama's hope for legislation that would lead to a "moonshot" fight to cure cancer has been imperiled by partisan divisions.
Republicans are reluctant to support any long-term spending commitments, while Democrats say that the bill will be for naught if Congress doesn't appropriate some serious money in the long-term for research.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, for instance, has proposed Congress commit an additional $5 billion a year to the National Institutes for Health.
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