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Tom Harkin: This year, fiscal year 2013, NIH funding will drop in actual dollars by $1.7 billion below last year's level, almost…

On the recordMay 14, 2013
This year, fiscal year 2013, NIH funding will drop in actual dollars by $1.7 billion below last year's level, almost entirely because of sequestration.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Harkin points out the impact of sequestration on NIH funding for 2013.

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