2015: DeSantis Effectively Voted Against Allowing The NIH To Use Funds On Abortion Related Experiments. In July 2015, DeSantis voted against an amendment that would have, according to Congressional Quarterly, “strike[n] language that applies any policy riders included in annual Labor-HHS-Education and Agriculture appropriations bills to National Institutes of Health (NIH) funds and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) funds provided by the bill.” The underlying legislation was the 21st Century Cures Act. The vote was on the amendment. The House rejected the amendment by a vote of 176 to 245. [House Vote 432, 7/10/15; Congressional Quarterly, 7/10/15; Congressional Actions, H. Amdt. 658; Congressional Actions, H.R. 6]