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John Garamendi: “I think you did. I was trying to grasp the totality of it. It is a process in which now this is a piece of legislation…”

On the recordJuly 16, 2013
I think you did. I was trying to grasp the totality of it. It is a process in which now this is a piece of legislation; it's here in the House. I would hope that our colleagues on the Republican side that control the passage of legislation, even the taking up of legislation in committee, would look at this and go, oh, you mean we can actually build $200 million or $2 trillion of infrastructure over a 50-year period without any appropriation, with no taxpayer dollars, other than some amount that's foregone in the repatriation. Very interesting, a very, very exciting proposal; and I would hope we take it up. I am sure that there will be questions about, well, who gets the money, who decides which projects are going to be selected.
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John Garamendi
Democratic · California
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Jul 16, 2013

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