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On the recordJuly 21, 2010
Under the present laws of the United States, the Department of Transportation has the opportunity to use our tax money to purchase rail cars made in Philadelphia, or buses made in California or in the Midwest, but they don't often do it. Instead, they use one of four waivers that are in the law that allows our tax money to be spent on things that are manufactured--buses, trains, light rail, subway cars--manufactured overseas and imported. Our tax money is going overseas. And I'm going, no way, no how. So what you and I and others are working on is to eliminate three of those waivers and simply say, ``No, no, no, no, no. If it's our tax money, we're going to use it to buy rail cars manufactured in Philadelphia.''
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John Garamendi
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

The speaker is addressing the use of tax money for purchasing domestically manufactured transportation vehicles.

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