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Mike Rounds: “One example that I've used is that there was an NIH when…”

Featuring: Mike Rounds, Republican | U.S. Senate South Dakota

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Discussion with Senator Rounds on Federal Job Cuts and Executive Branch Reduction

Published | Video Starts at 01:21

So on our part, we've looked at it and said, wherever we find something that needs to be repaired, we're going to do our best to try to get the repair. One example that I've used is that there was an NIH when they went in and they shut it down. One of the websites that they used was where the protocols for cancer research and the experimental work that was doing with some cancer patients, the protocols were set out on a day to day basis. (01:21–01:28)

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Asserts that the NIH was shut down as part of the government's reduction efforts.

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