When California voters approved the project in 2008, they were told the project would cost $33 billion.
Jeff Denham: “When California voters approved the project in 2008, they were told the project would cost $33 billion.”
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Denham highlights the drastic increase in projected costs of the high-speed rail project since its approval.
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I think everybody up here voted for the NEPA Reciprocity Act, NEPA/CEQA, so that we could streamline these projects.
Mr. Kelly, once again here when the original vote was approved as a $33 billion project and we found out just a couple years later it was a $98.5 billion project.
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