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On the recordMarch 5, 2013
And in my view, that is like the Indian tribes in the West where we always knew when a tribe was going to end when they began to eat the seed corn.
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Jim McDermott
Democratic · Washington

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McDermott compares underfunding research to tribes consuming their seed corn.

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