04/01/2009
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"The Yakima Basin Integrated Plan is the model for the West."
"I am a whole-hearted believer in this, and we have changed the EPSCoR program to work more effectively in the USICA Act because of this."
"I believe is, definitely, that the national labs should, in the American Competes Act--or as some now are calling it, USICA--gets it's fair share of R&D dollars for the future."
"There is not an issue of national security or, you know, competitiveness that does not come back to the material science aspect."