My concern is that we build another Amtrak that stops in Bakersfield, and the rest of the Nation looks at California and says, 'You just spent $6 billion,' and it is decades, if ever, that this thing ever gets accomplished.
Jeff Denham: “My concern is that we build another Amtrak that stops in Bakersfield, and the rest of the Nation looks at California and…”
On the recordJanuary 14, 2014
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Denham expresses concern about California's high-speed rail project potentially failing to connect major cities.
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