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John Larson: “What she observed then is that if Congress wished to reduce errors, the error rate further, it needed to stop squeezing…”

On the recordApril 25, 2017
What she observed then is that if Congress wished to reduce errors, the error rate further, it needed to stop squeezing the budget of the Social Security Administration.
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John Larson
Democratic · Connecticut

Editor's note · Context

Larson references Carolyn Colvin's testimony on budget impacts on error rates.

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