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Hank Johnson: “Yes. A Republican, by the way, 1958, I believe it was, decided that this country needed an interstate highway system.…”

On the recordDecember 13, 2012
Yes. A Republican, by the way, 1958, I believe it was, decided that this country needed an interstate highway system. Where would we be if we had not committed the dollars to get that done? When we did that, it was an investment in the future prosperity of this Nation to link cities, towns, and States with a way, a mode of transportation. They did that in the 1800s with the railroad system, another situation where the Federal Government supplied the seed money and gave away the land to help it become a profitable industry.
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Hank Johnson
Democratic · Georgia
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Dec 13, 2012

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