07/23/2014
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"We will see a loss of 620,000 jobs between highway and transit, 500,000 of those on the highway side."
"This bill, Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century, MAP-21, will maintain current funding levels, protect existing jobs, help spur economic recovery."
"I want to thank so much my friend and colleague, Senator Jim Inhofe, for ensuring that our differences on many other issues never got in the way of our working toward a bipartisan Transportation Bill."
"We really do believe this is a basic function of the national government, to address our infrastructure needs."