02/06/2007
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"Our taxpayers want basic research to be funded through the National Institutes of Health, and I would assume everybody that cares about this problem is outraged when we see cuts at the NIH budget."
"Thirty years ago, Representative Waxman coauthored the Hatch-Waxman Act, which updated our innovation ecosystem and made medications affordable for millions of Americans."
"Well, you mentioned the evergreening provision in your testimony."
"The foundation laid by the Hatch-Waxman Act thirty years ago will continue to be the mechanism by which the government incentivizes development of lifesaving drugs"