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Despite strenuous efforts, Varmus was unable to dissuade Senator Harkin from sponsoring a bill to establish a National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at NIH to replace the Office of Alternative Medicine. In May of 1999, therefore, NIH and other agencies met in a coordinating group to work out how the new center would actually operate.