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Mike Quigley: “You just took away half the funding for the Direct Grant Program.”

On the recordMarch 8, 2017
You just took away half the funding for the Direct Grant Program.
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Mike Quigley
Democratic · Illinois

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Quigley argues that the infrastructure plan reduces essential funding for local transit projects.

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