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On the recordDecember 7, 2008
These infrastructure jobs aren't make-work jobs. They are important work jobs; work that has to be done.
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Barbara Boxer
Democratic · California

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Senator Barbara Boxer stresses the importance of infrastructure jobs as part of the economic recovery plan.

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