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Chris Coons: I think we would really be causing harm to our competitiveness as a country to significantly cut NIST and to abandon the…

On the recordJune 7, 2017
I think we would really be causing harm to our competitiveness as a country to significantly cut NIST and to abandon the Manufacturing USA direction.
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Chris Coons
Democratic · Delaware

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Coons warns against cuts to NIST and the Manufacturing USA initiative.

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