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Jeff Denham: “So why not have a trust fund? And for that matter, why not, like the Department of Transportation, have a separate line…”

On the recordApril 10, 2013
So why not have a trust fund? And for that matter, why not, like the Department of Transportation, have a separate line item for the overhead expense of just having a national rail system?
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Jeff Denham
Republican · California

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Denham questions the lack of a dedicated trust fund for rail funding.

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Aug 8, 2018

Will it be high-speed from San Francisco to L.A.? That is one of the things that continues to be debated.

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$10.6 billion? And while we are waiting for that funding gap to come in, whatever that new revenue is, will we have high-speed rail on that segment?

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I just hope it doesn't take another big blowup like what happened in Edison for you to move on some of these regulations, because it is going to be catastrophic.

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The question the other 49 States ask us when we are talking about funding and whether or not we have more Federal funding is what are you doing yourselves?

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