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“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
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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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