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On the recordMarch 10, 2009
These funding decreases, if factored for inflation, represent a devastating 17 percent cut in research funding for the National Institutes of Health since 2003.
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Brian Higgins
Democratic · New York

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Higgins criticizes funding cuts to cancer research since 2003.

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