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On the recordSeptember 9, 2020
if we are going to invest in anything in our country, if we are going to ask the federal government to have a role in resourcing a lot of this R&D, then it is going to face continued and escalating pressure from the mandatory outlays that continue to consume a larger and larger share of federal resources.
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Steve Womack
Republican · Arkansas

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Womack discusses the impact of mandatory spending on federal investment in R&D.

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