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On the recordApril 30, 2008
I will be supporting this bill today because it is a good bill. I take great pride in that because it probably created about 185,000 new jobs, $286 billion to be spent for the infrastructure and for the economy of this great Nation. I say beware. It will be a terrible disaster for this great Nation of ours. We have other ideas about solving the high gas prices, but that is probably the worst I have heard of all.
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Don Young
Republican · Alaska

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Discussing support for a technical corrections bill related to infrastructure and job creation.

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