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On the recordSeptember 19, 2012
Hard choices will have to be made on how to reduce Federal spending, but ending overpayments to New York's State-operated developmental centers should not be a hard choice at all.
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Pat Ryan
Democratic · New York

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Ryan emphasizes the need to end overpayments to New York's developmental centers as a straightforward decision.

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