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On the recordMarch 19, 2007
As I think it is fairly well known, Senator Harkin and I, over the course of the past two decades, have taken the lead on increasing funding for the National Institutes of Health so that we have taken it from about $12 billion to about $29 billion.
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Arlen Specter
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Highlighting efforts to increase NIH funding over two decades.

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