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Paul Tonko: “Flat funding sounds kind, but it is brutal.”

On the recordMarch 14, 2018
Flat funding sounds kind, but it is brutal.
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Paul Tonko
Democratic · New York

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Tonko criticizes the impact of flat funding on critical research areas.

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