Since the NSF has $40 million for a plant genome initiative, there have been some questions raised concerning which agency, NSF or USDA, would serve as the lead agency for the national plant genome initiative. In the managers amendment, you clarified this issue by providing that USDA be the lead agency unless the funding it administered for the plant genome initiative was substantially less than that provided by another agency.
Discussing the lead agency for the national plant genome initiative during a congressional debate.
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Well, I think it is. I mean any time a group of people are denied rights and struggle for their rights, that's a civil rights movement.
Full equality means enjoying all of the rights that everybody else in the country enjoys. If everybody else in the country enjoys rights one, two, three and four, you have got to enjoy those rights too.
Of course, it is exactly the same. It's a right that all Americans have and no reason why gay and lesbian people ought not to have these rights too. These are universal rights.
All Americans ought to enjoy civil rights, and whatever the court does today, we are going to move a step closer to everyone enjoying these rights.
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