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Kathy Hochul: “We're going to get the discovery reforms done as well.”

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Governor Hochul's Address on Discovery Law Reforms in Ulster County

Published April 15, 2025 | Video Starts at 09:07

So I want to get back, I want to go up to Albany, I'm heading up there. I want to get this done over the finish line. But We're going to get the discovery reforms done as well. So we can all agree on this. Are you with me on this? Does this make a lot of sense? (09:07–09:11)

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Asserts commitment to completing discovery reforms.

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“Our budget negotiations have stretched out. You've heard all about it. I refuse to back down.”
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“I have a middle class tax cut I want to get enacted.”
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“I want to have an inflation refund to put more money back in people's pockets.”
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“Put $1,000 back in the pockets of people with little kids, free school lunches and breakfast.”
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“I've calculated to put about $5,000 back in New Yorkers pockets.”
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“Under the governor's proposed reforms, they will still have access to that same information they have now.”
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“No more throwing out these cases. No more making victims walk out sometimes in tears.”
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