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Their news conference centered on a tiny bug wreaking havoc on New York's ash trees and its forest-products industry.
But the point that Sen. Charles E. Schumer and Rep. Kathleen C. Hochul wanted to make Monday at the Crawford Furniture showroom in Amherst proved much larger: Republican budget cutting will wipe out federal programs like controlling the emerald ash borer that could threaten many of New York's 50,000 forest-industry jobs.See the full content of this document
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"This sheds a spotlight on what goes on in Washington," said Hochul, a Hamburg Democrat starting her second month in office. "People on the floor [of the House] say sl...
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