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On the recordMay 10, 2011
But without your leadership, I don't think it would have been possible for us to get the funding that is necessary to do what is being done in the research and treatment field of this very troubling, dangerous disease.
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Thad Cochran
Republican · Mississippi

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Cochran credits Inouye for securing funding for lupus research.

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