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Lisa Murkowski: “Does that get you into the situation, though, where--and this is actually a point that was raised in a New York Times…”

On the recordNovember 14, 2011
Does that get you into the situation, though, where--and this is actually a point that was raised in a New York Times article recently, that DOE is essentially doing what the rest of the market has been doing in recent years, shifting from high-risk, long-term research to short-term, low-risk?
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Lisa Murkowski
Republican · Alaska

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Murkowski questions DOE's shift from high-risk to low-risk research.

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