03/09/2011
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"Freight rail is number one in the world."
"For every billion dollars we spend, it generates 44,000 permanent jobs."
"Our reality is we are spending $1.5 trillion a year more than we are taking in, and we are borrowing it from China."
"If we continue with the direction we are going, we know even with projects that really make sense, we are having to question them and cut some of them."