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Henry Waxman: “You have correctly quoted the numbers as I understand them from the CBO about what the sequesters would do to NIH, and…”

On the recordJune 20, 2012
You have correctly quoted the numbers as I understand them from the CBO about what the sequesters would do to NIH, and that loss of 2,300 grants, which would come already 3 months in the fiscal year, would represent about a quarter of the total grants we would give for that entire year.
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Henry Waxman
Democratic · California

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Waxman highlights the significant reduction in NIH grants due to sequestration.

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