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Shelley Moore Capito: “I don't want to cede our medical research and our biomedical…”

Featuring: Shelley Moore Capito, Republican | U.S. Senate West Virginia

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It's not a passion. But everybody's touched by it. And this, I think, is something that we need to keep reinforcing. And so I think, you know, just, I don't want to cede our medical research and our biomedical superiority in being able to get, unlock the answers to any other country and to us and to me, then that becomes a national security issue. So it really spans the globe in terms of where you're, where you're concerned. So we're just going to keep pounding the drum and making sure that NIH is moving forward with reforms. (20:29–20:41)

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Asserts that maintaining U.S. biomedical research superiority is a national security issue.

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