Usually, Republicans and Democrats agree on making sure that research and development investments are made right here in the United States.
Some argue that research and development costs are investments for the future, the same as a new plant, and ought to be capitalized as assets and written down over a period of time.
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We will dramatically increase and coordinate public sector investments in research, development, and demonstration of these technologies, with a view to doubling such investments by 2015, while recognizing the importance of private investment, public-private partnerships and international cooperation, including regional innovation centers.
And comprehensive energy reform came up as a way of talking about and dealing with our investments in research and development and in jobs for the future.
First and foremost, through strategic investments in both the Recovery Act and the budget, the President has made significant investments in the research and development for these new advanced technologies that we will bring cleaner, more efficient cars and trucks to American families.
Republicans have, unfortunately, made clear that they would rather see cuts in defense that could harm our national security, cuts in education and innovation, research and development, in border security, cuts in vital programs and investments that we make as a nation, rather than ask millionaires and billionaires to pay a single dollar more in taxes.
We can't gut our investments in research and development and in clean energy to solve our deficit challenges.
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At the G8 summit, I'm going to encourage world leaders to increase their own investments in research and development.
In recent years, many compounds have been withdrawn for cardiotoxicity, representing potential losses of huge investments in research and development.
Artificially low prices for medical technologies discourage investments in research and development.
So at moments like these, sacrificing these investments in research and development, in supporting clean energy technologies, that would weaken our energy economy and make us more dependent on oil.
It means rolling back billions of dollars of tax breaks to oil companies so we can prioritize investments in clean energy research and development.
Healthy yen earnings could, if not gobbled up by higher yen prices for imported goods in Japan, and under the right conditions, fund new investments in sales- and growth-boosting activities such as research and development.
It is part of any, we think, balanced approach towards reducing our deficits and getting our spending and revenues in line in a way that puts our fiscal house in order, reduces our long-term debt, allows for the investments that we need in education, research and development, energy technology, to be economically competitive and dominant in the 21st century.
We need to make some very important investments in education, in infrastructure, in research and development.
At the same time, we're going to be making some key investments in places like education, and science and technology, research and development that the American people understand is required to win the future.
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And we need to do it in a way, as the President has said, that cuts deeply, but does not cut the very investments that we need to make in education, infrastructure, research and development that will guarantee our success, job creation, and economic growth in the future.
Revolvers shouldn't be used for long-term investments like new equipment, a multi-year marketing program, research and development and the like.
It drains limited resources and prevents investments in other areas such as facility upgrade, process improvement and research and development.
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