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Jamie Raskin: “What's striking to me, though, is that those people who have gone through it or have had an immediate family member go…”

On the recordMarch 28, 2017
What's striking to me, though, is that those people who have gone through it or have had an immediate family member go through it, look at something like a proposed $6 billion cut in NIH medical research budget and are horrified by it.
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Jamie Raskin
Democratic · Maryland

Editor's note · Context

Raskin expresses concern over proposed cuts to NIH funding affecting cancer research.

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