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On the recordJanuary 22, 2018
You probably hit on the key thing that was, I think, the toughest thing to recognize, and that is: where is the Federal Government's responsibility at creating the incentive for people to create something that there is not a commercial market for?
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Richard Burr
Republican · North Carolina

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Burr questions the government's role in incentivizing innovation without a commercial market.

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