Cantor: University research a key for jobs
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said Wednesday that the nation’s future lies in the hands of its universities and industries, and that government wants to work with them to foster the important innovation that is the country’s “engine for growth.” Cantor also said that Washington should put a priority on research because of the economic leverage it generates and because Americans expect the nation to be a global research leader. “I don’t think there’s any question, we ought to put a priority on research in this country,” Cantor said. “Washington does a lot of things that perhaps we ought to reexamine and say it ought not be doing anymore but one thing that I think the country expects is leadership in research because it has a huge leverage effect in our quality of life in what we can do in productivity.” But Cantor said that disagreement between Republicans, who control the House, and Democrats,...