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Marshall Sanford: My question would be on some of the things that the gentleman mentioned. On the New York Stock Exchange we find Boise…

On the recordJune 29, 2000
My question would be on some of the things that the gentleman mentioned. On the New York Stock Exchange we find Boise Cascade and International Paper and Westvaco. And given the fact that these are multimillion-dollar corporations, and given the gentleman's advocacy for people in need, and given the fact that there are scarce dollars in Washington, all I am suggesting by this amendment is given the fact that we have publicly traded companies that can do this basic research, why not let them do it, rather than having them subsidized by people who frankly are not so well off in these research projects?
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Marshall Sanford
South Carolina

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Discussing the role of corporations in funding research during a debate.

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