[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 2]
[House]
[Pages 1682-1683]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           PROTECTING SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH FROM THE SEQUESTER

  (Mr. PETERS of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. PETERS of California. Mr. Speaker, last week I visited the Salk 
Institute, a cutting-edge biological research facility whose work has 
contributed to San Diego's status as the number two life science 
cluster in the United States. At Salk, I met Dr. Geoff Wahl, a 
professor who leads a groundbreaking cancer research lab, and Bianca 
Kennedy, a breast cancer advocate and survivor.

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  In fiscal year 2012, San Diego firms received more than $130 million 
from the National Science Foundation and $850 million from the National 
Institutes of Health. It's these types of investments that have created 
hundreds of thousands of jobs and bolstered our economy, contributing 
also to the quality of life for people around the world.
  The sequester threatens to undo this progress. The immediate cuts to 
NIH from sequestration are 8.2 percent, which is equivalent to a cut of 
$2.5 billion. This could result in the loss of 33,000 research-related 
jobs in 2013 and a $4.5 billion decrease in economic activity.
  Let's work together to avert the sequester so we can continue to 
improve the lives of patients and lead the world in science and 
technology.

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