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On the recordMarch 3, 2020
There was a United States senator once from Illinois named Barack Obama who got into the SAFETEA-LU Bill that you could use a half a percent of your SAFETEA-LU money to build the road construction work force of the future, women, people of color, poor people.
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Susan Davis
Democratic · California

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Davis references Obama's legislation aimed at improving workforce diversity in construction.

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