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Well, certainly if you look at that diagram you can see we are down more than 10 billion over where we would have expected to be if we had stayed on that dotted green line which is the trajectory for nih going back to 1970 so it will take quite a bit to make up that ground. The other thing the other thing i might show you a consequence of that for people trying to get Research Funded that is the success rate, an investigator who has sent there grant in is facing. You can see going back a couple of decades that has been in the range of 25 to 35 percent. More recently we are down in the zone of ...

Happening since last night, the answer comes in two words. Ted cruz. Cruz set this up beautifully. First he prevented the house and Senate Budget committees from meeting on what the government should be spending. This stopped the appropriations process in its track. Not a single appropriations bill has been signed. The result . Of preventing a single bill, the continuing resolution, from getting enacted. This is the brilliance of ted cruz. No spending bills have been passed, shutting down the u. S. Government could be complete. It wouldnt be some departments or agencies being shut down, but th...

Or agencies being shut down, but the whole shebang. Brilliant. The freshman senator from texas has brought the american political process to total dysfunction. The American Government to a shutdown. His plan now quite bluntly is to turn the United States into a dead beat nation. By the end of this month should he still be in control, the chinese billionaire who went into tea bonds will be in the same boat. There wont be a nickel in interest. What will that do . Suppose you saw an airline advertise it had a 95 Safety Record. What would you do to that . What would that do to you . Wouldnt you lo...

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Quorum call mr. Merkley mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from oregon. Mr. Merkley mr. President , i ask the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Merkley merkley thank you. ,mr. President. I wanted to make a few comments on what has transpired here on the floor of the senate. First, some enormously good work has been done with regard to addressing the disaster caused by hurricane sandy. I know in a number of states, unprecedented devastation has occurred and we should respond extremely quickly, more quickly than we have. And i hope the house wil...