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Alan Grayson: “Why do we have a national lab system instead of taking the same amount of money and dispersing it through DOE to…”

On the recordNovember 17, 2015
Why do we have a national lab system instead of taking the same amount of money and dispersing it through DOE to competitive grants open to everybody, presumably the best offeror?
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Alan Grayson
Florida

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Grayson questions the rationale behind the national lab system versus competitive grants.

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