The story has a slightly more nuanced take on it than your post might have indicated, however.
This
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/20/lawmakers-ice-bucket-challenge_n_5696290.html, which was linked within your link, is interesting.
Incidentally, a young man who was a high-school friend of my older daughter and was a brilliant and promising medical researcher at UC Davis, just died of ALS at age 37. It's a terrible thing for the person who is slowly smothered by their own body and for the family and friends who spend years watching the decline. ben left 2 young kids.
I am glad to see that the ice bucket thing has already raised more than what the sequestration cut, but it would be nice if they now gave it up and found some other way to raise money.
I just made a point. I certainly wasn't hiding anything.
We are cutting basic medical research out of our budget, and that's something I don't believe should happen. Finding cures and treatments is in investment in our nation that pays off, it doesn't cost. I'd rather see a nation where basic medical research is fully funded and they need to hold a bake sale or ice bucket challenge to buy land to give land to Walmart for a new store.