Eddie Bernice Johnson actually said...

We would not just be turning off the lights on many groundbreaking research facilities and experiments today, we would be eating our seed co...

I could not disagree more. They should have special interest and self-interest, and I hope they do...

Without dismissing the value of many other investments we make... there is probably no single investment we make...

To label them as nothing more than another special interest group is, at best, misleading.