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On the recordApril 15, 2013
Can you give me any reason why the sequester cuts to the National Institutes of Health would be good for the economy?
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Jim McDermott
Democratic · Washington

Editor's note · Context

McDermott questions the economic justification for sequester cuts to NIH funding.

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