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Jay Rockefeller: “[t]he combination of eroding Federal investments in research and higher education, additional cuts due to sequestration…”

On the recordOctober 8, 2013
[t]he combination of eroding Federal investments in research and higher education, additional cuts due to sequestration, and the enormous resources other nations are pouring into these areas is creating a new kind of deficit for the United States: an innovation deficit.
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Jay Rockefeller
Democratic · West Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Rockefeller highlights the need for increased federal investment in research to avoid an innovation deficit.

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