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John Garamendi: “One of the reasons is this: this is the infrastructure investment from 2002 to 10 years later. That is about an $85…”

On the recordDecember 10, 2013
One of the reasons is this: this is the infrastructure investment from 2002 to 10 years later. That is about an $85 billion reduction in infrastructure investment. I wanted just to drive home the point that you have made about putting people to work and about what happens when you bring down the infrastructure investment. People are unemployed, construction workers and beyond.
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John Garamendi
Democratic · California
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Dec 10, 2013

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