FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Friday, September 26, 2003
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2003-09-26

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DIARY ENTRY — Friday, September 26, 2003
Source: Diary Prequel, p. 82 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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White House meeting on Bioshield with the usual suspects – Stewart Simonson,
Jorge Tavel, Ken Bernard, Bill Winkenwerder, Larry Kerr, etc. We are getting ready for finalizing
the legislation. After the meeting in the EEOB, I went over to the West Wing to see Richard
Falkenrath. NIAID will be awarding 2 NBLs (BSL-4 labs) and 9 RBLs (BSL-3 labs) on Sept. 30. I
have been getting incredible lobbying pressure from people like Sen. Hillary Clinton and others
for their state or district sites. Chicago is in the running for an NBL and the President is going to
Chicago on Sept. 30. The WH wants me to delay the announcement until 2:00 PM after the
President leaves Chicago since Chicago got an RBL, but not an NBL and the WH wanted to
avoid any embarrassment for the President to be there when bad news arrived.