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On the recordMay 20, 2009
It seems to me that concerning the program you talked about, the Grant Opportunity Program, the GO Grants, it is my information that the purpose of this program is to support high-impact ideas that require significant resources for a discrete period of time to lay the foundation for new fields of investigation.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Harkin discusses the purpose of the GO Grants program and its funding.

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