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Lisa Murkowski: “If the view is rather than including funding in a budget proposal that would really help facilitate capital improvements…”

On the recordJune 6, 2017
If the view is rather than including funding in a budget proposal that would really help facilitate capital improvements and maintenance, instead of funding that, we are going to bank on a larger national infrastructure project, my concern is the big bridge, wherever it may be, will get that funding, but that $350,000 that is going to have an extraordinary ripple effect in this small community will be overlooked because it is not big enough potatoes.
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Lisa Murkowski
Republican · Alaska

Editor's note · Context

Murkowski expresses concern that small projects may be neglected in favor of larger ones.

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