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On the recordJanuary 16, 2018
If you are not willing to do that, and if you are not active--and I hope you would be very, very aggressive at this--it will move us towards more cargo, rather than less.
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John Garamendi
Democratic · California
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Garamendi warns that inaction will lead to fewer cargo developments.

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