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Dana Rohrabacher: And the fact is that--but what we are--what--this whole issue that I just brought up, this undercuts so much of whatever…

On the recordJuly 16, 2014
And the fact is that--but what we are--what--this whole issue that I just brought up, this undercuts so much of whatever the government's basic research is doing, and all the other things that have been mentioned, if our own private companies that invest in it, now we found--we have made it profitable for other companies to take them over and eliminate it. We are going to--our people are going to suffer needlessly in the future because of this.
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Dana Rohrabacher
Republican · California

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Rohrabacher discusses the negative impact of private companies on government research.

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