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14 Jul 08
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His initial call to arms on Wednesday contained some partisan elements. He was accusing the Democrats of trying to limit member access to sites such as Twitter.
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JC: That's an easy question, wind energy is an important part of the solution to make America energy independent. We need to basically check all the boxes on the list of things we need to do to make America energy independent, but we need to do it without subsidies. I strenuously oppose subsidies for any industry out there and it is heavily subsidized as is ethanol, as are biofuels, as are a number of other alternative energy sources. And I particularly resent the fact that the majority party in Congress passed a, I think it was a 15 billion dollar tax increase on just the American oil companies late last year and then handed the money over to the alternative energy guys so essentially part of the money you're paying at the pump when you're you know filling up your car with a $70 tank of gas, a chunk of that money is going straight to these alternative energy guys that are heavily subsidized.
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JC: Top priority to me is to double the budget of the National Science Foundation, Congress needs to double the budget of the National Institute of Health, we need to double the investment that we're making in energy research, particularly in the Department of Energy and create a Manhattan style project of making America energy independent in the next ten years and at the same time making sure that we maintain our competitive edge in the world through a massive investment in the National Science Foundation and then also I think we should do a Manhattan style project of curing cancer with an investment in the competitive peer review process at the National Institutes of Health.
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The best way to assure the future economic prosperity of the country is to make a long term investment into the sciences.
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the one area we've got to invest big dollars in is in the National Science Foundation and
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But I would point you to, I've been a subscriber to the Journal of Nature and Science for many, many, many years, I'm an amateur astronomer, I'm an amateur geologist always loved planetary sciences. I'm a mineral and fossil collector. I've always been fascinated with science, so I read those journals cover to cover, I don't pretend to completely understand a lot of the molecular the biological articles that I read, but I've a pretty good grasp on a lot of the others, and I have seen articles for example recently in one of the November 2007 issues of Nature they reported on a group of Japanese scientists who added five growth factors to adult stem cells and converted those adult skin cells into pluri-potent skin cells that could then grow into any number of different things.
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