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Paul Tonko: I think, too, it speaks to the priorities, again, that we need to carve into the budget work that we do. We make a…

On the recordSeptember 6, 2016
I think, too, it speaks to the priorities, again, that we need to carve into the budget work that we do. We make a statement with the budget. We identify with the great public, the great many of us, as to what we believe are those champion issues and what we need to take into concern first and foremost. While we may have cast this into opposite ends of the age spectrum, what really strikes me is, when the Alzheimer's advocacy community comes to Washington on their given fly- in day, every year you hear of numbers going lower and lower in the population, so that you begin to wonder: Is this genetics, is it geriatrics, or is it environmental? What is driving it? But lower and lower creeps the age.
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Paul Tonko
Democratic · New York
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Sep 6, 2016

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