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Pat Ryan: “As a business owner, I worked on the 4th of July and I worried about it and I fielded calls from other franchisees…”

On the recordJuly 31, 2013
As a business owner, I worked on the 4th of July and I worried about it and I fielded calls from other franchisees asking what this meant on the 4th of July.
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Pat Ryan
Democratic · New York

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Ryan shares a business owner's concerns about the impact of Obamacare on small businesses.

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