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John Hickenlooper: “We laid off all the technicians and all the scientists…”

Featuring: John Hickenlooper, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Colorado

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Published | Video Starts at 03:18

So chicken farmers all over the country, including Colorado, were having to Put down their entire flocks and then have to rebuild them. And somehow we managed to, through cutting the funds at the center for Disease Control, We laid off all the technicians and all the scientists working in Ames, Iowa, on the avian flu. It's hard to imagine how you could have done a worse job of trying to cut. (03:18–03:25)

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Asserts that technicians and scientists working on the avian flu in Ames, Iowa, were laid off.

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