As near as we can tell, it's not authorized. But we are taking this in a lighthearted manner. It is milk, after all. |
His mood is great. We do know that he agrees with us and probably all Americans that if this means that we are coming to the end of this four-year, over $40 million investigation, then that would be a good thing. |
I'm not going to suggest one way or another what might happen after that. |
In the past, there has always been an exemption for basic research, but the problem here is that that exemption is essentially being set aside. So the issue here is, what are the rules going to be and how difficult for [universities] will it be? |
It didn't start with this administration. It goes back 20 or 30 years. The growth has been very slow and frequently just flat. It's a long-term problem. |
The administration does not believe the standards for intervening under Taft-Hartley have been met at this time. |
The birth thing was just insult added to injury. |
The goal is to substantially expand federal efforts to save America's natural treasures and provide significant new resources to states and communities, to protect and restore farmland, city parks and open spaces. |
The higher education community has been able to work with him on a number of issues, but we don't always see eye to eye. It's really difficult to predict what kind of leader he might be and what impact he will have on higher education. |
The impact on research could be very serious. The bottom line is that research that benefits both our economy and our national security just won't happen. |
The notion is that if a person uses a particular technology and goes back to their home country with knowledge of how that technology is created, then [the technology] is deemed to have been exported and therefore requires a license. |
The point of him (Clinton) going is to help give momentum to an agenda that will accomplish a great deal for the American people this year, if the Congress moves on it. |
The president has already made it clear that he believes it's very important that we make child care safe, more available and more affordable. |
There have been a couple of areas that improvements were needed and in fact that's the work that's been going on that has led to the guidelines that are being issued today. I said it worked. I didn't say it was working perfectly. |
We don't think it should have any impact on our review. |