If transportation is a priority, if people see transportation as a jobs bill, if they look at our budget as a jobs budget, then we're going to have to sit with the Congress and figure out how to pay for it.
LaHood emphasizes the need for Congress to prioritize transportation funding.
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It's going to be expensive to build the high-speed rail. If that is the figure today, that is the figure today.
In some parts of the country, we are going to have trains going 200 miles an hour.
We need to find the money so that people are not fearful of crossing bridges in the Commonwealth or in any other State in our country.
Well, I think people like the investments we're making. There's so much enthusiasm in America for high-speed rail.
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