Lawmaker says flu funds left unspent

From: The Washington Times | April 30, 2009 

The Department of Health and Human Services is sitting on more than a billion dollars appropriated by Congress for anti-pandemic efforts but unspent, according to a House member. Rep. Kay Granger, Texas Republican, said in a letter this week to new Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius that she is “very concerned, however, by reports that the Department of Health and Human Services has approximately $1.3 billion in unspent funds for the implementation of the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza (NSPI). I am particularly concerned that this large unobligated balance remains after I wrote to and spoke with [then-HHS …

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