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Paul Tonko: We pay 10 times more when we wait for the break in a line to occur than to have done the preventative therapy.

On the recordApril 12, 2016
We pay 10 times more when we wait for the break in a line to occur than to have done the preventative therapy.
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Paul Tonko
Democratic · New York

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Arguing that preventative maintenance is cheaper than reactive fixes.

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