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On the recordMarch 23, 2023
In no area of transportation do I think your phrase in your opening statement, decades of disinvestment, is it more real than in our rail infrastructure.
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Chris Coons
Democratic · Delaware
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Coons highlights the severe disinvestment in rail infrastructure.

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