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Fred Upton: “And I got to say, way back when, I was one of the participants with John McCain and Paul Wellstone and Henry Waxman, who…”

On the recordJuly 24, 2018
And I got to say, way back when, I was one of the participants with John McCain and Paul Wellstone and Henry Waxman, who doubled the money for the NIH back in the 1990s.
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Fred Upton
Republican · Michigan

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Upton reflects on past efforts to increase NIH funding.

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