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Dick Durbin: “In response to the fiscal year 2008 Transportation-HUD Appropriations Act conference report and again requested in a…”

On the recordDecember 6, 2007
In response to the fiscal year 2008 Transportation-HUD Appropriations Act conference report and again requested in a letter dated December 7, 2007, from Sen. Richard Durbin and 11 other senators to former FTA Administrator James Simpson, we have now completed a Rail Modernization Study.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Durbin discusses a study on rail modernization requested by him and other senators.

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